Executive Order 9510—Transfer of Certain Personnel from the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the War Department

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 Commander Edward B. Brown, Jr.
     Lieutenant Commander Max G. Ricketts
     Lieutenant Commander Kennath S. Ulm
     Lieutenant Marvin T. Paulson
     Licutenant Harold J. Seaborg
     Lieutenant V. Ralph Sobieralski
     Lieutenant Raymond H. Tryon, Jr.
     Lieutenant (j.g.) Eugene L. Maxwell

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

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
January 8, 1945.