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Show Peacetime Duties Continued Durincr 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 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 de-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. |