States entered the war to March 15, 1942, when the Army and Navy personnel engaged in these operations were formally transferred to the Office of Censorship. The Office of Censorship was established by an Executive order of December 19, 1941, to censor all communications passing between the United States and any foreign country or between foreign countries by means of transportation that touched U.S. territory. The Executive order also created the Censorship Policy Board to advise on policy and coordination and the Censorship Operating Board to arrange for other Government agencies to use information acquired through censorship. Voluntary censorship of information concerning the war effort by the domestic press and radio was initiated by the Director. After Germany's surrender the activities of the Office were greatly curtailed; they were terminated by an Executive order of September 28, 1945. See Office of Censorship, A Report on the Office of Censorship (1945). There are 539 cubic feet of records dated between 1939 and 1945 in this record group. RECORDS. 1939-45. 657 lin. ft. These consist of minutes, including those of the Censorship Policy and the Censorship Operating Boards; reports of divisions and field stations; directives; instructions; correspondence; memorandums; manuals; handbooks; press releases; confidential material; a history of the Office compiled by its Historical Section; and an illustrated lecture on the Office's history. Also included are intelligence records; records created by the War and Navy Departments relating to the planning, organization, and early operation of postal and cable censorship, respectively; records maintained by by the Administrative, Postal, Cable, and Press Divisions; shortwave watch logs and a card record of foreign-language broadcasts monitored by the Broadcasting Division; records of the postal censorship station at San Juan, P.R.; and budget records. See Henry T. Ulasek, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Office of Censorship, PI 54 (1953). SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS I. Records: All intelligence and security records of the Office of Censorship except the "History of the Technical Operations Division." Restrictions: These records are under seal and may not be examined by anyone for any purpose without the permission of the President of the United States. Specified by: President of the United States. II. Records: The "History of the Technical Operations Division" and all other records of the Office of Censorship not covered by restriction I for this record group that contain information concerning techniques and methods of censorship or information that would, if released, invade the right of privacy of individuals or firms. Restrictions: These records shall not be made available to the general public, and their use shall be restricted to those agencies of the Federal Government having a legitimate interest in the information they contain. Specified by: Office of Emergency Planning in conformity with policies stipulated by the former Office of Censorship. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE The Office of Civilian Defense (OCD) was established in the Office for Emergency Management by an Executive order of May 20, 1941, to coordinate Federal, State, and local defense relationships regarding the protection of civilians during air raids and other emergencies, and to facilitate civilian participation in war programs. It took over the functions and records of the Division of State and Local Cooperation of the Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense. Fiscal, budgetary, and personnel responsibilities for the OCD were handled by the Division of Central Administrative Services of the Office for Emergency Management until 1942 when these responsibilities, with minor exceptions, were transferred to the OCD. The nine regional offices that coordinated the work of State and local defense organizations were closed June 30, 1944, and an Executive order of June 4, 1945, terminated the OCD. There are 606 cubic feet of records (in WNRC except for nontextual records) dated between 1939 and 1945 in this record group. RECORDS. 1940-45. 861 lin. ft. There are some records of the Division of State and Local Cooperation of the Council of National Defense. OCD records are those of the national headquarters, including central files, records of the Director's office, and records of the Administrative, Federal-State Cooperation, Industrial Protection, Labor, Legal, Medical, Protection Services, Public Counsel, and Report Analysis and Statistics Divisions; the Library; and the Reports and Awards Office. Records of Region IX, with headquarters in San Francisco and serving eight Far Western States, include records of the office of the regional director, of organizational units similar to those of the national office, and of sector offices. See Office of Civilian Defense, Inventory of the Records of the Office of Civilian Defense (1945). CARTOGRAPHIC AND AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1939-45. 5,290 items. Cartographic records, 1941-45 (533 items), consist of maps of the United States, showing administrative offices and regional and local civil defense boundaries and groups; and maps prepared by the Ninth Civilian Defense Region (Washington, Oregon, and California), relating to civilian defense facilities and activities. Audiovisual records consist of still pictures, 1940-44 (4,500 items), including photographs of bombs, bomb tests, camouflage materials, camouflaged industrial installations, and OCD personnel, and illustrating such civilian defense activity as fire prevention, drills, rescue operations, defense against and injuries caused by poison gas attack, and air raid instruction; aerial photographs of industrial and residential areas, relating to camouflage studies; and drawings of camouflage plans. Filmstrips, 1941-45 (11 items), illustrating lectures in the air raid warden training program. Motion pictures, 1941-45 (46 reels), used in training civilian defense workers and relating to mobilization, rescue, firefighting and prevention, child care, defense against poison gas attack, smoke concealment, air raid defense operations, and equipment and its use; promoting victory gardens and food conservation; and of London under aerial attack. Sound recordings, 1939-45 (200 items), of radio broadcasts of speeches, discussions, and dramas promoting participation in the civilian defense program and explaining the operation of all its phases. Included are broadcasts by the OCD, the YMCA, the U.S. Army, the Burns and RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY WAR SERVICES The Office of Community War Serv- the Council of National Defense on September 19, 1940, and the Committee on Physical Fitness, which originated under ODHWS and was separately established in the Federal Security Agency by an Executive order of April 29, 1943. There are 237 cubic feet of records dated between 1940 and 1948 in this record group. HEADQUARTERS RECORDS. General records, 1940-47, comprise a small documentation file and subjectclassified central files (209 lin. ft.) in which the central files of the OCWS, its predecessors, and the Health and Medical Committee and the Committee on Physical Fitness were integrated. Records, 1941-45, of the Office of the Director include general files; correspondence and other records relating to critical areas, agency programs, and relationships with the Federal Security Agency; records relating to the Joint Committee on Evacuation; and a reading file and budgetary records of the Office of the Executive Officer. Records of the Recreation Division, of the 1941-48, include records Director's office; general and regional files; the Associate Director's files; records relating to juvenile delinquency, youth centers, and "living war memorials"; reports and surveys; dockets for wartime public works recreational proj ects; records concerning postwar plans; general, regional, and foreign correspondence files; and a motion picture entitled "When Work Is Done." Records of the Social Protection Division, 194146, include minutes; general, subject, and regional files; and statistical materials, reports, studies, and publications. Records of the Day Care Division, 194146, consist of general files and records of grants to States. Field Operations Division records include a reading file, April-June 1941, of the Director of the Program Operations Branch, the predecessor of the Division; policy and information issuances; regional and conference files; community reports; records documenting reporting procedures; and records relating to ODHWS and OCWS relationships with the War Manpower Commission. There are also minutes and general records of the Family Security Committee, 1941-42; and records of the These consist of general records of Region II, 1941-46; records relating to the Willow Run, Mich., area, AprilJuly 1943; and office files of the OCWS director for the Caribbean area, relating to venereal disease control, recreation facilities for U.S. Armed Forces in Brazil, and welfare services for the Virgin Islands. See Estelle Rebec, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Office of Community War Services, PI 132 (1960). RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF CONTRACT SETTLEMENT (RECORD GROUP 246) The Office of Contract Settlement was established by the Contract Settlement Act of July 1, 1944, to continue the work of the Joint Contract Termination Board of the Office of War Mobilization (see RG 250). The act also provided for the Contract Settlement Advisory Board, composed of officials of major contracting agencies, to advise the Director of Contract Settlement, and for the Appeal Board, appointed by him, to hear appeals from war contractors on decisions of contracting agencies. An act of October 3, 1944, placed the Office of Contract Settlement and the two boards in the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. An Executive order of December 12, 1946, transferred to the Treasury Department the boards and the functions and records of the Office and gave the authority of the Director of Contract Settlement to the Secretary of the Treasury. The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 transferred the boards and contract settlement functions to the General Serv ices Administration (GSA). Both the Treasury Department and the GSA maintained a small Office of Contract Settlement to continue the remaining work. The Appeal Board was terminated January 13, 1953, ending active contract settlement activities. The Office of Contract Settlement established policies and coordinated operations of Federal agencies engaged in settling terminated war contracts. It prescribed uniform standards and procedures for issuing termination notices, handling claims, and negotiating final settlements. Regulations of the Office covered such matters as interim financing of war plants, removal of Government-owned equipment from war plants, protection of the claims of subcontractors, microfilming and destruction of war contractor records, and retention of records by contracting agencies. The Office was assisted by several technical committees, composed of representatives of contracting agencies, that studied and made recommendations on such matters as terminations, plant clearance, interim financing, training, public information, property and plant accounting, and legal questions. See Office of Contract Settlements, A History of War Contract Terminations and Settlements (1947). There are 130 cubic feet of records (in WNRC) dated between 1941 and 1955 in this record group. RECORDS OF THE JOINT The Board, composed of representatives of Federal agencies interested in terminations of war contracts, was established November 12, 1943, by the Director of the Office of War Mobilization and placed under the Advisory Unit for War and Post-War Adjustment Policies. Its policies were expressed in Office of War Mobilization directives. General correspondence of the Board and the Advisory Unit is with the correspondence of the Office of Contract Settlement. Separate records of the Board include its minutes and those of its subcommittees; reports, correspondence, and other records of the Board Chairman; correspondence of the secretary; and correspondence, memorandums, and other records of a consultant to the Board. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF CONTRACT SETTLEMENT. 1941-55. 142 lin. ft. Included are general correspondence, 1943-47; records of the Office of the Director, 1944-47, including minutes and other records of the Contract Settlement Advisory Board, of which the Director served as Chairman, and reports and correspondence of the Director; reports, correspondence, and other records of the Office of the Deputy Director, the Office of the General Counsel, and the Accounting, Interim Financing, Progress and Statistics, Property and Plant Clearance, and Public Infor mation Divisions, 1943-46; case files of the Appeals Board, 1945-53; and records concerning termination and settlement of war contracts inherited and created by the Treasury Department and the GSA, 1941-55. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF DEFENSE TRANSPORTATION The Office of Defense Transportation (ODT), successor to the Transportation Division of the Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense, was established in the Office for Emergency Management on December 18, 1941, with responsibility for assuring "maximum utilization of the domestic transportation facilities . . . for the successful prosecution of the war." The ODT was authorized to coordinate activities of Federal agencies and private transportation groups in adjusting domestic transportation systems to the necessi ties of war, determine the adequacy of transport facilities and act to provide necessary additional facilities, coordi nate and direct traffic movement to prevent congestion, coordinate domestic traffic movements with ocean shipping in conjunction with the U.S. Maritime Commission and other agencies, determine storage and warehouse requirements, represent the defense interest of the Government in rate matters, and legislation recommend emergency affecting domestic transportation. The ODT was also authorized to limit and |