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Executive Order 9236
Transfer of the Survey Ship Pathfinder to the Navy Department and Transfer of Certain Personnel Among the Coast and Geodetic and the War and Navy Departments
Signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Sep 3, 1942.
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