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or Navy satisfactory to the relatively independent Services in the Army and 

 Bureaus in the Navy interested in the operation of the Radiation Labora- 

 tory. By the time NDRC met on October 20, 1944, several divisions had 

 submitted their demobilization plans; at that meeting demobilization plans 

 were approved for Divisions 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10 for submission to the Di- 

 rector of OSRD. Not so with Division 14, however. When the Commit- 

 tee met on November 3, 1944, to discuss the demobilization plans for Divi- 

 sions 14 and 15 two rear admirals and one captain from the Navy, a 

 major general, a brigadier general and a colonel from the Army appeared 

 before the Committee to argue against the formulation of demobilization 

 programs for those divisions. The Service viewpoint was clearly expressed 

 that OSRD should engage in an all-out effort on research right up until 

 the end of the war on all fronts, even though it was obvious that under 

 such a program many of the results would not accrue in time for use in 

 the war then being waged. The suggestion that OSRD might step out of 

 the picture in favor of direct contracts on the part of the Services received 

 a cool reception. 



A number of divisional demobihzation plans were before the Committee 

 at its meeting on November 3, but it was apparent that some of them had 

 been drawn up on a misapprehension as to the Committee's intention. 

 While the Committee had requested the plans to be prepared with a view 

 to their being put into effect at a future date, some of the divisions had pre- 

 pared plans to become effective immediately. Accordingly, the Committee 

 took no action on the plans which had been submitted but decided to send 

 out a revised statement of its intention. 



One exception to this reservation of action was Division 12, which had 

 felt for some time that it had completed the major part of its activity. 

 That division presented a demobilization program independent of the 

 over-all demobilization of OSRD calling for the termination of the divi- 

 sion's activities by December 31, 1944. This plan was approved by NDRC 

 on November 3 and subsequendy referred by the Director of OSRD to 

 the Army and Navy for their comments. After both had expressed their 

 concurrence in the plan. Bush approved it on November 16, 1944. A lim- 

 ited amount of report writing made it impossible for Division 12 to ter- 

 minate its activities as of the scheduled date, but it was in fact terminated 

 as of June 30, 1945. 



Division 6 presented a special case. In the race between the German 

 submarine and the Allied antisubmarine activities, the Allies apparendy 

 had established a comfortable lead, and the division had for some time 

 been concentrating its activities on the prosubmarine field for use in the 

 Pacific war against Japan. The nature of the prosubmarine activities was such 

 as to call for the closest possible co-operation with naval operations, and 

 the research and development activities had progressed to the point where 



