five forms used in common by the services and the Office of the
Secretary of Defense that contained racial designations. On 3 March
1964 Paul discreetly ordered the removal of race designations on all
but nine of these forms, those concerning biostatistical, criminal,
and casualty figures.[22-63] His order did not, however, extend to
another group of forms used by individual services for their own
purposes, and later in the year Fitt drafted an order that would have
eliminated all racial designations in the services except an entry for
data processing systems and one for biostatistical information. The
directive also would have allowed racial designations on forms that
did not identify individuals, arranged for the disposition of remains
and casualty reporting, described fugitives and other "wanted" types,
and permitted other exceptions granted at the level of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense or that of the service secretary. Finally it
would have set up a system for purging existing records and removing
photographs from promotion board selection folders.[22-64] The
services strongly objected to a purge of existing records on the
grounds of costliness, and they were particularly opposed to the
removal of photographs. Photographs were traditional and remained
desirable, Deputy Under Secretary of the Army Roy K. Davenport
explained, because they were useful in portraying individual physical
characteristics unrelated to race.[22-65] Davenport added, however,
that photographs could be eliminated from promotion board materials.

[Footnote 22-62: Memo, Spec Asst to ASD (M) for Under
SA, 15 Apr 63, sub: Racial Identification on
Military Records (similar memorandums were sent to
the Secretaries of Navy and Air Force on the same
day); Memo, ASD (M) for OASD (Comptroller) (ca. 1
Jun 63); both in ASD (M) 291.2. For service
reviews, answers, and exchanges on the subject, see
ASD (M) 68A-1006. See also Memo, SSJ [Stephen S.
Jackson, Spec Asst to ASD (M)] for Valdes, OASD
(M), and James C. Evans, 11 Jun 63, ASD (M) 291.2.]

[Footnote 22-63: Memo, DASD (CR) for DASD
(Management), 3 Mar 64, sub: Elimination of Racial
Designations on DD Forms (the Army adopted this DOD
pol