Preparations for Demobilization

On 27 October 1943 the ASF directed the technical services to submit by 20 December 1943, at least in skeleton form, plans for partial demobilization in Period I. Headquarters, ASF, furnished a guide in the form of a control chart listing operations considered necessary to accomplish demobilization objectives. These operations included the disposition of industrial facilities, the curtailment of industrial construction, and the disposition of supplies. After submitting the skeleton the CWS added flesh 

Minutes Interdepartmental Group on Materiel Demobilization Planning, Dir of Industrial Demobilization ASF. (2) Brig Gen W. F. Tompkins address before Army Industrial College, 5 Jan 

entitled. War Department Demobilization Planning. CWS 314.7 Demobilization Planning File. (3) R. Stanley McCordock, Demobilization, 1 Apr 47, pp. 12-13, 20-21, in monograph series History of the CWS in World War II. (4) Activities of Control Division, OC CWS, 1 Jan 44 to 31 Dec 44. 

From the spring of 1944 until the spring of 1945 the chief s ofl ce worked on still another demobilization plan, the one for Redeployment, Readjustment and Demobilization, Period I. This plan, published on 1 March 1945, listed the same objectives as those contained in the previous 20 May 1944 plan on materiel demobilization, only in much more detail. It listed not only the actions that the chief s oflEce would take in the demobilization period, but also those which the installations would take. 

Five weeks before the surrender of Germany, all responsible officers in OC CWS and at the installations received a copy of this plan.  

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