Show Peacetime Duties Continued During War the war on an only slightly reduced basis the coast coastguard I guard has continued all ot of its peace peace- peacetime time ime functions such as maintenance I If t aids to navigation enforcement f maritime and laws as asell aswell well ell as performing duties more di- di directly tied in with the war and be- be belides betides tides lides furnishing men to man hun reds ot of ships of all types and stations sta- sta I ions in aU all theatres ot of th the war Surprising uses have been found for tor coast guard peacetime skills in inthe inthe the midst of the global war For example the coast guard has long assisted commercial fishers in many places so when it became de- de desirable desirable to restore Italy's fishing in- in industry industry after Allied occupation a coast guard mission was dispatched to Italy in the fall of 1943 to direct the work The mission was so suc- suc successful successful that in the assigned territory fishing was restored |