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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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redby the armed forces during the war.The continuing need for Improvedelectronic aids to navigation for com-mercial and military use Indicates theImportant part this activity will con-tinue to play In peacetime CoastGuard activities. The Coast Guard IsAn Armed Force Normally, the Coast Guard oper-ates under the direction of the Treas-ury. But when war breaks out andthe big guns start belching fire andsmoke and steel In earnest, the CoastGuard Immediately goes on a war-time footing under the Navy Depart-ment. The nucleus of our earliestNavy, as a matter of fact, was theRevenue Marine, whose armed shipswere the backbone of this nations de-fense in 1798 when war with Franceappeared imminent. Since then, theCoast Guard has fought side by sidewith the Navy In every one of thiscountrys wars. The war record of the CoastGuard has been portrayed in wordsand pictures throughout the world.Sufiice it to say that certain of itspeace-time activities were curtailedor suspended in World War II, while
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U. S. Revenue Cutter Grant: The first vessel of the Revenue Service to be equipped with wireless in 190J 220 Bell Telephone Magazine I WINTER Others were greatly expanded to meetthe needs of the emergency. Greatly augmented were the activi-ties of port security, beach patrols,offshore patrols, ice-breaking, weatherstations, search and rescue, electroniccommunications, navigation aids, un-derwater sound, and marine inspec-tion. All seagoing cutters were as-signed to convoy or anti-submarineduties. Coast Guard aircraft oper-ated under Sea Frontier Command-ers. Total manpower rose from 25,000officers and men at the outbreak ofthe war to over 170,000 by the endof the war. The establishment ofthe Womens Reserve, whose SPARSserved in numerous communicationsbillets ashore, aided greatly in re-leasing men for duty afloat, and theservice was further augmented bysome 65,000 temporary reservists.Many of the latter were former mem-bers of the Auxiliary, a volunteernon-military organization create

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