The Coho salmon which attracted the large number of boats to the area remained in season for another 3 weeks. During this time the Coast Guard maintained daily aircraft and small boat patrols of the area. 24 September 1947-The Coast Guard announced that it had virtually completed the return of United States buoys, lights, and other aids to navigation, to a peacetime basis. The bodies of two of the Coast Guard crew were recovered and were buried in a small church yard in Lamphey, Pembrokeshire, Wales, Great Britain. One body was returned to the family in the U.S. after the war while one, who was never identified, is still interred in Lamphey's church yard to this day.
Local residents care for the grave.
1994- Coast Guard forces depart for Haiti in support of Operation Restore Democracy. President Roosevelt posthumously awards Munro the Congressional Medal of Honor, the only person in the Coast Guard to earn this decoration. In cases where enlisted personnel did not immediately reenlist in the Coast Guard, to extend enlistments for one year, if the date of expiration of enlistment occurred prior to 9 July 1951. The Coast Guard, however, adopted a policy of permitting the discharge of men upon expiration of enlistment, provided they immediately enlisted in the Coast Guard Reserve. Section 9 of this act authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to assign to any of the collectors of customs, the superintendence of such lighthouses, beacons, lightships, and buoys as he might deem best.