The Symposium on Achievement of High Fatigue Resistance in Metals and Alloys was given at the Seventy-second Annual Meeting of ASTM held in Altantic City, N. J., 22-27 June 1969. ASTM Committee E09 on Fatigue, Subcommittee I on Research sponsored the symposium, which was held in three sessions: Parameters Important to High Fatigue Resistance, H. F. Hardrath, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, chairman of Session I; Mechanisms for Achieving High Fatigue Resistance, J. C. Grosskreutz, chairman of Session II; and Processes for Achieving High Fatigue Resistance, C. E. Feltner, Ford Motor Co., chairman of Session III. J. C Grosskreutz and C. E. Feltner presided as symposium cochairmen.