The USCGC Smilax (WLIC 315), Coast Guard's Queen of the Fleet, is moored up at For Macon, Nov. 7, 2024, while current and former crewmembers prepare to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the cutter in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. The cutter Smilax was commissioned on Nov. 1, 1944. ( Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Jonathan Lally)

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