Show peacetime duties continued during war throughout the war on an only slightly llight ly reduced basis the coast guard has continued all of its peace ime ame functions such as maintenance if f aids to navigation enforcement if f maritime and navigation navi gatien laws as yell ivell as performing duties more directly tied in with the war and belides furnishing men to man hun freds of ships of all types and sta ions in all theatres theartres the atres of the war surprising uses have been found for coast guard peacetime skills in the midst of the global war for example the coast guard has long assisted commercial fishers in many places so when it became desirable to restore italy fishing industry after allied occupation a coast guard mission was dispatched to italy in the fall ol of 1943 to direct the work the mission was so successful that in the assigned territory fishing was restored |