USCGC Aurora (WPC-103) was a 165-foot (50 m), steel-hulled, diesel-powered Thetis-class patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard.

[4] During the Japanese attack on the Aleutian Islands in June 1942, she served as part of Task Force 8 under Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, Commander of the North Pacific Force, tasked with defending Alaska from Japanese attack.

She was part of Task Group 8.2 (the Surface Search Group) consisting of the patrol craft of Parker's fleet: his flagship, the gunboat (Charleston); 5 cutters (Aurora, Onondaga, Haida, Cyane, and Bonham); 14 YP patrol vessels; and a former minesweeper redesignated as an ocean tugboat (Oriole).

[5][6][7] Their picket was augmented by planes from the Air Search Group consisting of twenty PBY Catalina flying boats (operated by seaplane tenders Williamson, Gillis, and Casco) and one land-based B-17 Flying Fortress bomber.

[8] She was involved in operations during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) and the Dominican Civil War (1965)[9][10] for which she was awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal.