Executive Order 9605—Revoking Paragraph 4 of Executive Order No. 9279 of December 5, 1942, So as to Permit Voluntary Enlistments in the Armed Forces
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including the selective Training and Service Act of 1940 as amended, as President of the United States and as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, and in order to permit voluntary enlistments in the armed forces of the United States, it is ordered that paragraph 4 of Executive Order No. 9279 of December 5, 1942, be, and it is hereby, revoked.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
August 29, 1945
Harry S Truman, Executive Order 9605—Revoking Paragraph 4 of Executive Order No. 9279 of December 5, 1942, So as to Permit Voluntary Enlistments in the Armed Forces Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/278137