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Show Peacetime Duties Continued During War Throughout the war, on an only slightly reduced basis, the coast guard has continued all of its peacetime peace-time functions, such as maintenance of aids to navigation, enforcement of maritime and navigation laws, as well as performing duties more directly di-rectly tied in with the war, and besides be-sides furnishing men to man hundreds hun-dreds of ships of all types and stations sta-tions in all theatres of the war. Surprising uses 'lave been fotrnd for coast guard peacetime skills in the midst of the global war. For j example, the coast guard has long assisted commercial fishers in many places, so when it became de- i sirable to restore Italy's fishing industry in-dustry after Allied occupation, a coast guard mission was dispatched to Italy in the fall of 1943 to direct the work. The mission was so successful suc-cessful that in the assigned territory fishing was restored. |