| Show peacetime duties baties continued during war throughout the war on an only slightly reduced basis the coast guard has continued all of its peacetime functions such as maintenance of 0 aids to navigation enforcement of maritime and navigation laws as 83 well as performing duties more directly tied in with the war and besides furnishing men to man hundreds of ships of all types and stations in all theatres theartres the atres of the war surprising uses have been found for coast guard peacetime skills in the midst of ota the global war for example the coast guard has long assisted commercial fishers in many places so when it become became desirable to restore italis fishing tn in austry after allied occupation a coast guard mission was dispatched to italy in the fall of 1943 to direct the work the mission was so sue that in the assigned territory fishing was restored k |
