September-October - Air Defense Artillery

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Planning Industrial Mobilization
President Harrv S. Truman, as Commander in Chief of
the Armv and N~vv, has directed that the Armv and Nan'
J\ lunitio~s Board t;ke over the important postwar assig~ment
of planning for industrial mobilization in the event of
a future emergency.
This means that the Board will become one of the key
agencies in the defense program to be adopted to safeguard
the security of the United States after the present wartime
militarv establishment is demobilized.
Assignment of the task to the Board is a part of the program
of reconversion which is now taking place in the Government
preparatory to the liquidation of wartime agencies
and the shifting of their functions to regular peacetime
organizations.
As a preliminary step in the preparation for assuming its
new task, the Board is at present being reconstituted and
strengthened in the light of experiences gained during
\Vorld \Var II and the far-reaching changes which seem
to lie ahead.
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Pacific Bases
Plans for the establishment of permanent advanced major
bases considered necessary in the future because of their
strategical importance to the Navy have been announced.
The following bases were mentioned: Kodiak, Adak,
Hawaii, Balboa, Guam, Saipan, Tinian, Bonins, Hyukyus,
Manus, and the Philippines. Action on the Navy recommendation,
of course, is dependent upon Congress, with approval
by the President.
THE COAST ARTILLERY JOURNAL
;34th Captures American Planes
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S!!ptelllber-Oct
\Vhen the 7th U.S. Army overran several Nazi air
fields during the last week of war in Europe, members 0
the 534th AM (A \V) Bn., discovered Allied planes bear.
ing Nazi markings. A PA7 was hidden among trees an
was ready for flight. It was taxied to the center of the fiel
and guarded by the 534th ack-ackers. Several P-51's and
Spitfires, painted with Nazi crosses and swastikas, Wer
found hidden in the forest near the airfield at Bad
\Vorishofen, Germanv.
One P-51 had made a crash landing in the field near
Fussen, Germany. Under a clump of trees was a battered
P-38 with similar markings.
. End of Censorship \
The Joint Chiefs of Staff on 2 September ordered the
discontinuance of censorship of mail and telecommunica.
tions of all members of the U.S. Armed Forces in the
Asiatic-Pacific Theaters and in the ETa. ,
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No Cutbacks in Army's Athletic Equipment
Because of the needs of the Army's recreational program.
carried out by the Special Services Division for soldiers sta~
tioned in Europe and in the Pacific, no cutbacks in procurement
of athletic equipment can be expected, at least until
the first of the year. \
Already in full swing in Europe, the program has been
greatly expanded since the Japanese surrender to include
Signal Corps Photo
Milling machines in the V-l bomb factory in an iron mine at Thil, France. The capacity of this plant W'lS 200 V-l's dail
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