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​​​​​​​​​​USCGC Courier 410-WAGR
NFKW Vagabond-Able
US Coast Guard Cutter Courier Cold War radio broadcasting ship beamed Voice of America (VOA) programming to Iron Curtain countries from the island of Rhodes, Greece 1952-64.
HONORING THE SHIP, ITS MISSION, AND ITS CREW
"A battleship without guns..."
This vessel will not be armed with guns, or with any instruments of destruction. But it will be a valiant fighter in the cause of freedom. It will carry a precious cargo—and that cargo is truth.
President Harry S. Truman, 1952
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