Show I Key Center for Redistribution I. I The announced army program for moving some men out of Europe within the next year has great significance to First and foremost significance is personal Thousands of Utah mothers and fathers wives and sweethearts children and relatives can now look forward to seeing their loved ones again Perhaps a third of these men will be discharged under the army's point system which will give preference to those with the longest service to fathers and to those who have had the longest overseas overseas overseas over over- seas and combat duty Many more will return to this country and be given a furlough before reassignment Second significance tto to is that Fort Douglas will be one of the key centers in the west for redistribution ution of these returning returning returning re re- re- re turning service men The fort will be the personnel center for discharge or furloughing of these men in the states of Idaho Montana Nevada and Utah That means Fort Douglas will still be a busy place for at least a year while the process of redistributing men from the European theater goes on And i it will likely still be a busy place after that because millions of men will still be in the army until the war against Japan is over and the same task of returning and releasing men will have to be performed after the Pacific war waris waris is 13 ended ow |