Evening star., 1945-04-05

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i This is the core of what the Amer
.. ican high command calls its rede.
J ployment problems, and at this
point the problem ceases to be SIM
pie. Men and supplies cannot be-
gin to leave Europe until Germany
lis completely defeated, and they
cannot begin arriving in the Philip
pines (or wherever else they will &c
out there) until bases and camps are
ready to receive them.
~ Unanswered Question.
When the generals started max
ing plans to close out business in
Europe they came up against this
still unanswered question: When
and how will the war with Ger
many end?
A German surrender would give
us a clean break in Europe. We
would not need to leave men to mop
up Nazi guerrillas.
But the war may juS drag on
through weary months of lessening
enemy resistance. If this happens,
the Allied powers will have to decide
somehow when they have won the
war and proclaim that a certain
day is We day.
At that time the American high
command will order into effect one
of the various detailed plans for re-
organizing its divisions in Europe
and transporting them out of the
| theater. except those to be left IN
Germany.
! Routes to Be Taken.
simultaneously the generals and
admirals will have to take into ac-
count the state of the war against
Japan.
If the island of LuZon, in the
Philippines, is the largest mass of
land we than held out there, most
of all of the troops from Europe will
go to LuZon. But if Japan or China
have been invaded by then, they
might go more directly to those
battle areas.
The routes by which they will go
and the general time schedules can
be told now:
The first troops out of Europe will
be for the most part service units
men to build camps and airflelds,
roads, docks and the like. The first
equipment will be the stuff they
need to do these jobs.
Most of these troops will go di-
rectly from the ports of Northern
and Western France, and of Belgium
and Holland, across the Atlantic,
through the Panama Canal and into
the Pacific. 1t will be long. tough
trip, and it will mean the men chos-
en- for this assignment will not get a
furlough home between wars.
Will Go by Air.
Some early units will leave from
Marseille and other Mediterranean
ports and voyage east by way Of the
Suez Canal Depending on where
they are needed, some Air Force
units will fly to India and points be-
yend by way of the Middle East.
Gen. Arnold says most of the Air
Force will go directly to the Pacific.
After these first movements of
service units, with possibly a few
combat units included, the great
stream of American soldiers gin
Europe will begin to flow across the
Atlantic to New York and other big
East Coast ports.
Those coming home that way will
include both men to be demobilized
and men to be furloughed.
This is what will happen accord
ing to present plans:
/. From the ports where they dis
embark the men Of both classes will
be routed by train to score of big
Army personnel centers" through
out the country. These are the
camps used also for inducing men
into the Army. Returning veterans
will 60 to the camps nearest their
homes, travelling in groups set up on
a geographical basis. If man is
to be discharged. he will get his final
papers there and transportation
home. If he is to be furloughed, he
will get transportation.
2. Each man on furlough will have
up to about months leave. He
must report back to the personnel
center.
g. After further training, the vet
Grams will be sent to Army units