Executive Order 9049—Ordering Certain Organizations and Units of the Organized Reserves Into the Active Military Service of the United States

Under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by Public Resolution 96, approved August 27, 1940, 54 Stat. 858, as amended by Public Law 338, 77th Congress, approved December 13, 1941, and by the National Defense Act of 1916 (39 Stat. 166), as amended, and as Commander in Chief of the Army of the United States, I hereby order into the active military service of the United States, effective on dates to be hereafter announced by the Secretary of War, for the duration of the present war and for six months after the termination thereof, subject to earlier relief or discharge, each of the organizations and units and all of the personnel of the Organized Reserves not already in such service.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
February 6, 1942.