Show peacetime duties continued during war throughout the war on an only a slightly lightly reduced basis the coast guard has continued all of its peacetime functions such as maintenance of aids to navigation enforcement of maritime and navigation laws as well as performing duties more directly tied in with the war and besides furnishing men to man hundreds deeds of ships of all types and stations in all theatres theartres the atres of the war surprising uses kave 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 italis fishing industry alter after allied occupation a coast guard mission was dispatched to italy in the fail all of 1943 to direct the work the mission was so successful that in the assigned territory fishing was wa restored |