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Demobilization
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Demobilization 

the transfer of armed forces and entire sectors of the national economy from wartime to peacetime status. Demobilization provides at the end of a war for the reduction of the armed forces to regular peacetime forces by disbanding troop units, headquarters, installations, and institutions formed during wartime, the discharge of surplus personnel into the reserve, and the return to the national economy of property confiscated during mobilization.
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He was in his de-mob suit and he had a red rose in his lapel.
'He had a rose in his lapel - I fell for him' by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Family members saved their fruit allowances for the cake and Bas, who was married in the de-mob suit given to him when he left the Navy, cycled 20 miles from Middlesbrough to Rosedale and back to get fresh eggs for the cake.
True love...Bas cycled 20 miles to get eggs for their wedding cake by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
 
 
 
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