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U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue Statistics, Fiscal Year

During the height of World War II, as battles raged across oceans and continents, another line of defense stood watch much closer to home — along the vast, windswept shores of the United States. The U.S. Coast Guard Beach Patrol, formed to protect against enemy infiltration, tirelessly guarded more than 3,700 miles of coastline from 1942 until the war’s end in 1945. Comprising approximately 24,000 men, these patrols worked day and night to detect and deter threats such as enemy submarines, spies