A graduate of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy in 1931, Commander Webb saw seven years’ duty in the Pacific, all the way from Bering Straits to Samoa. Later an instructor at the Coast Guard Academy, he commanded the cutter Pontchartrain in 1945 and 1946. A graduate in law from the George Washington Law School, at present he is serving in the Legal Division of U. S. Coast Guard Headquarters at Washington, D. C.