To convince the public, and especially employers, that veterans being treated for battle-induced mental instability were completely normal after psychiatric treatment, on June 25, 1945, the Army Signal Corps tasked Major John Huston with producing the documentary The Returning Psychoneurotics. Many veterans faced the stigma associated with ' shell shock' or 'psychoneurosis', the former terms for post-traumatic stress disorder. Army had the task of reintegrating returning military veterans into peacetime society. Demobilizing near the end of World War II, the U.S.
