 As the U.S. Army was demobilizing near the end of World War II it had the task of reintegrating returning military veterans back into peacetime society.An obstacle veterans faced was the stigma surrounding "shell shock" or "psychoneurosis", the old terms for posttraumatic stress disorder.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".