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Title	Procurement of spectacles for military and other authorized personnel [electronic resource].
Item Number	d0003
Creator (Corporate)	United States. War Dept.
Government Publisher	U.S. Government Printing Office
Original Date	1943
Physical Description	12 p. ; 23 cm.
Series	War Department Pamphlet ; no. 8-5.
Table of Contents	General -- Spectacles, commercial type, and spectacles, gas mask type -- Fitting and repair cases -- Procedure applicable to stations in various localities and to military and other authorized personnel on duty with and without troops in continental United States and in foreign countries.
Summary	For United States Army personnel, including Army nurses, members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, and other militarized female personnel of the Army. (1) The Surgeon General will provide all military personnel with spectacles, when required, and will replace lenses and frames when either or both are damaged or lost in the performance of military duty. (2) The Surgeon General will prepare such instructions as may be necessary and make such contracts and incidental arrangements as may be required... b. (1) For authorized military personnel of any country the defense of which the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, when such authorized personnel are stationed within the forty-eight States and the District of Columbia and military personnel, wherever located, of all cobelligerent countries who cannot reasonably obtain eyeglasses or replacement and repair thereof from facilities of their own country. b. (2) * * * for medical care and treatment of authorized personnel of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States when such care and treatment cannot be obtained from medical units of their own country.--p. 2.
Corporate Names	United States.--Surgeon-General's Office.
Topical Terms	World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Equipment and supplies--Government policy--United States. Eyeglasses. Eyeglasses, Protective. Vision disorders. Soldiers--Health and hygiene--United States.
Geographic Terms	United States--Armed Forces--Procurement.
Gov Doc Classification	D 101.22:8-5
Type	Text
Digital Format	.pdf
Digital Publication Date	Available in digital format: 2001-2002
Digitization Process	Scanned as 300 dpi .jpg; converted to Adobe .pdf
SMU File Name	d0003.pdf
Digital Collection	Historic Government Publications from World War II
Library	Government Information Resources
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	These files may be freely used. A high-quality version of these files may be obtained for a fee by contacting ncds@smu.edu.

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