Executive Order 9305—Transfer of Certain Personnel Among the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the War and Navy Departments

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 16 of the act of May 22, 1917, 40 Stat, 87 (U.S.C., title 33, sec. 855), and as President of the United States, and in view of the existing national emergency, it is hereby ordered as follows:

1. The following-named commissioned officers are hereby transferred from the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the service and jurisdiction of the War Department:

          Lieutenant Ross A. Gilmore
          Lieutenant Ernest B. Lewey
          Lieutenant Glenn W. Moore
          Lieutenant Philip A. Weber

2. The above-named officers shall, while under the jurisdiction of the War Department, serve under their commissions in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and while so serving shall constitute a part of the active military forces of the United States and shall be under direct orders of the War Department and subject to the laws, regulations, and orders for the government of the Army so far as they may be applicable.

3. The above-named officers shall be returned to the Coast and Geodetic Survey when the present national emergency ceases to exist.

4. Lieutenant Commander George L. Bean, who was transferred by Executive Order No. 9072 of February 24, 1942, to the service and jurisdiction of the Navy Department, and Lieutenant Commander Leo C. Wilder, who was transferred by Executive Order No. 9187 of June 30, 1042, to the service and jurisdiction of the War Department, are hereby returned to the service and jurisdiction of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
February 23, 1943.