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82 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. f f f 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 f f 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 <strong>September</strong> 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. , f f f 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 f
., NEWS AND COi\Ii\IENT The Missouri, with the Iowa astern, steams into Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremony . {hePacific Theater. Need for athletic equipment in the Pacific is even greater than in Europe because of the lack of established resorts and the lack of recreational facilities. The Pacific program will include championship
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