American industry moves into reconversion program.

American industry moves into reconversion program. Two American workers (upper photo) spot weld bomb fins in the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia, in the eastern U.S. state of Pennsylvania, on August 16, 1945, the last day of their war jog, two days after U.S. President Harry S. Truman announced Japan's unconditional surrender. On Augusts 17, on another floor in the same building, the two men (lower photo) begin work on side panels for autromobiles for civilian use. On August 18, President Truman ordered full mobilization of all government resources for promotion of swift and orderly reconversion of national economy from war to peacetime footing.