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| Quentin R. Walsh | |
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| Born | 2 FEB 1910 |
| Died | 18 MAY 2000 |
| Service | USCG |
| Rank | Captain |
| Known for | Commanding Officer of a U.S. Naval party reconnoitering the naval facilities and naval arsenal at Cherbourg June 26 and 27, 1944 |
Quentin R. Walsh was born on February 2, 1910, in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, in 1933. His initial assignments involved serving on Coast Guard cutters that captured "rum runners" between Cuba and Nova Scotia. In the late 1930s, Walsh spent a year observing a whaling factory ship, covering 30,000 miles from Sweden to Australia, the Indian Ocean, and Antarctica. He produced a detailed three-volume report on modern open-sea whaling, which the Commerce Department references in its stance against commercial whaling.
During WWII he led a U.S. Naval party reconnoitering the naval facilities and naval arsenal at Cherbourg June 26 and 27, 1944, engaging in street fighting with the enemy. He accepted the surrender and disarmed 400 of the enemy force at the naval arsenal and later received unconditional surrender of 350 enemy troops and, at the same time, released 52 captured U.S. Army paratroopers.
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References Cited
- ^ "Quentin Walsh". www.history.uscg.mil. Retrieved 2024-08-09.