Executive Order 9083
After the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a wartime measure signed Executive Order 9083 on February 28, 1942. It transferred the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation's inspection duties, amoing other things, temporarily to the control of the United States Coast Guard.
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