To the public, he's a World War II hero who also happens to be the only member of the Coast Guard with a Medal of Honor (so far). To hundreds of Marines who fought at Guadalcanal on Sept. 27, 1942, ...

SEATTLE - Hundreds attended a formal ceremony at Pier 91 Saturday to commission theU.S. Coast Guard's newest ship. The cutter is named after Douglas Munro, a Cle Elum native who died in battle in ...

CLE ELUM, Wash. -- Seventy-five years after he gave his life for his country, members of the Coast Guard and others gathered to remember Douglas Munro. Munro, a signalman first class, was killed on ...

In the U.S Coast Guard's over 200-year-old history, only one of its members has ever been awarded the Medal of Honor. Signalman First Class Douglas Munro earned the decoration posthumously in ...

Apr 9, 2017 Apr 9, 2017 Updated Oct 16, 2018 0 Even among the 472 Medal of Honor recipients of World War II, Douglas Munro stands out. The South Cle Elum resident was the first — and so far only — U.S ...

The Coast Guard's newest cutter, named the Douglas Munro, arrived in port on Wednesday in advance of her commissioning this weekend. Munro was the only member of the Coast Guard ever to receive a ...

The Coast Guard will say goodbye Saturday to the last of its workhorse open-ocean cutters of the past 50 years, the 378-foot high endurance cutter Douglas Munro. At 49 years of service, the ...

A crew member of the cutter Douglas Munro, Seaman Ethan Kelch, 19, was declared dead Sunday morning in Alaska. (Coast Guard) Investigators are probing the death of a Coast Guard member discovered ...