US Army TS Engineers 1 Troops & Equipment: Index

Index

–A–

A. P. Hill Military Reservation: 265, 290, 480

Aberdeen Proving Ground: 469

Ackerson, Maj. Duane W.: 440

Adcock, Maj. Gen. Clarence L.: 23, 36, 41, 59, 138

Adjutant General, The: 121-22, 123, 150, 287, 342

Adjutant General’s Office: 282, 294, 351, 365, 425

Administrative Division, OCE: 132

Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense. See National Defense Advisory Commission.

Aerial photography. See Camouflage; Mapping, aerial photography.

Agriculture, Department of: 83, 84, 289

Air compressors: 33-34. See also Construction machinery.

Air Corps. See Army Air Forces.

Air Engineer. See Army Air Forces, Air Engineer.

Air Force Combat Command: 129, 140

Air Service. See Army Air Forces.

Air Transport Command: 316

Airborne aviation battalions: 145n, 315-16, 318, 319, 324, 325, 329, 332

Airborne battalions: 145n, 222

Airborne combat engineers: 315

Airfields, construction of: 18, 56-57, 62, 315, 467.

–B–

Bagley, Lt. Col. James W.: 65, 70

Bailey, Sr. Donald Coleman: 50

Baker, Col. William C., Jr.: 28, 33, 41, 44, 45, 48, 62, 423

Ball, Col. Clinton W.: 312, 313

Baltimore District: 509

Banfill, Brig. Gen. Charles Y.: 59, 60, 69, 75, 76

Bangalore torpedo: 173, 468-69, 470

Barbey, Capt. Daniel E.: 379, 382, 382n

Barclay, Col. James M.: 568

Barrage Balloon Training Center: 464

Barrage balloons: 204, 464, 517, 518

Bart Laboratories, Belleville, N. J.: 91

Earth: 414

Base depot companies: 229, 298, 307

Base equipment companies: 229, 235, 277, 307.

See also Equipment companies; Light equipment companies.

Base shop battalions: 222

Basic training AGF nondivisional units: 340, 341, 343, 353

amphibious units: 366-67, 368, 372, 385, 389, 390

of aviation engineers: 161, 315, 316, 317-19, 322, 323, 324, 325-27, 334, 335

for officers: 282

petroleum distribution units: 430, 433

port reconstruction units: 395, 397, 400, 402, 405, 407, 412, 413, 414

of replacements: 125, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165-71, 174, 243, 247-48, 250, 252, 253, 259, 262, 264, 268

by units: 125, 160-61, 273, 274, 275, 276, 280, 281, 286, 287, 289, 290, 294, 295, 303, 308, 313

Baton Rouge ASF Depot: 543

Battalion-group system. See Group system of organization.

Battle maps. See Field Artillery, mapping; Maps, coverage and scale.

Bausch and Lomb Optical Co.: 66, 71

Beach Erosion Board: 439, 440, 450, 459

Beach obstacle clearance: 464, 472-73, 475, 481

Beauchamp, Lt. Col. Stonewall J.: 536, 537, 554, 555, 556, 564, 566

Becker, 2nd Lt. Carl D.: 419

Belvoir. See Fort Belvoir, Va.

Benson Project: 449, 457

Berlin, Edson W.: 425, 427, 428, 429, 431

Bessell, Brig. Gen. William W., Jr.: 117, 122, 146, 147, 156, 157, 340

Besson, Brig. Gen. Frank S., Jr.: 42, 47, 49, 51, 60, 61, 197, 423-24, 483, 485-86, 492

Besson, Col. Frank S., Sr.: 253, 258-59

Beverly, Lt. Col. Grant E.: 475

Blitzkrieg: 18, 19-21, 22, 23, 28, 37, 76, 355, 573

Blood, Brigadier W. E. R.: 187, 188, 196, 197, 198, 500, 501

Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors: 439, 440, 450

Boats: 42, 48, 52, 93, 99, 201, 204, 486, 525. See also Pneumatic floats.

Bogardus, Maj. Frederick J.: 484

BOLERO: 427. See also Great Britain, build-up in.

Bolling, Maj. Gen. Alexander R.: 344, 349, 350

Bolling Field: 82

Bonneville Dam: 5

Bostick, Lt. Col. Sidney F.: 541

Bowley, Maj. Gen. Albert J.: 70

Bowman, Brig. Gen. Frank O.: 486

Bradley, Maj. Gen. Follett: 331

Bradley, Gen. Omar N.: 482, 573

Bradley Plan: 331-32

Bridge company, armored battalion: 24, 45, 52-53, 138, 224. See also Treadway bridge companies.

Bridges

Bailey: 496, 497, 575

adoption of: 485-86, 490, 493-94

deliveries, 1944: 549-51

description: 50-51

lack of interchangeability with British: 549-51

modifications: 491, 493, 495

training in erection of: 172-73, 285, 307

design criteria: 37

footbridges: 52

H-10 fixed: 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 49-50, 51, 486, 490, 491, 494, 495, 549

H-20 fixed: 39, 40, 44, 45, 49-50, 51, 486, 490, 491, 494, 549

infantry support: 49, 486

M-3 pneumatic ponton: 491, 494

M-4 division-army: 494-96, 497

procurement of: 93, 97, 98, 99, 106, 108, 201, 204, 525, 549

steel treadway: 63, 494, 496, 497, 525, 575

accidents on: 486-89

development and tests: 42-49, 52, 483

procurement of: 493, 549

redesign of: 490n, 491, 492-93, 494

truck for: 483-84

testing site: 464

trestle: 39, 44, 45, 47

5-ton ponton: 42

7½-ton ponton: 38

10-ton ponton: 38-39, 41, 44, 45, 46, 141, 486

23-ton ponton: 41

25-ton ponton: 41-42, 44, 45, 49, 483, 484-85, 486, 489, 491, 494, 494n, 495, 496

Bridging

increase due to motorization and mechanization: 14

in theaters of operation: 1, 306, 496

1941 maneuvers: 130-31

British Army: 14, 18, 54, 77, 357, 368

British Army Staff: 184, 186, 424

Chief Engineer of. See Blood, Brigadier W. E. R.

British Combined Operations Staff: 378

British Navy: 368

British Survey Directorates: 456

British War Office: 424

Brooklyn General Depot: 532

Brotherton, Col. William W.: 397

Brown, Col. Edward A., Jr.: 305n

Bucyrus-Erie Co.: 98

Buda Co.: 516, 519

Bulldozer: 30-33. See also Construction machinery; Tank dozer.

Burdick, Col. Roy D.: 566, 567, 568

Bureau of Standards: 27

Burma Road: 421, 422, 423

Burrage, Col. Robert H.: 502

Byron-Jackson Co.: 426

–C–

Cadres: 112, 116, 161. See also Instructors and administrative staffs.

AGF units: 339, 340, 349

dredge crews: 412

Cadres—Continued Engineer Replacement Training Centers: 119n, 260, 261, 264

general and special service regiments: 272, 275

Negro units: 118-19

Camouflage: 58, 81-87, 129, 204, 455, 464

Camouflage battalions and companies: 11, 26, 222

Camouflage materials, procurement of: 88, 204

Camp Abbot, Ore.: 257-59

Camp Carson, Colo.: 341

Camp Edwards, Mass.: 360, 361, 364, 367, 376, 379, 385, 389, 427

Camp Gordon Johnston, Fla.: 389, 397-98

Camp Hale, Colo.: 464

Camp Maxey, Texas: 345

Camp Pontchartrain, La.: 434

Camp Roberts, Cal.: 349

Camp Robinson, Ark.: 128, 349

Camp Shelby, Miss.: 341

Camp Sutton, N. C. See Engineer Unit Training Centers, Camp Sutton, N. C.

Camp Swift, Texas: 345

Camp Tyson, Tenn.: 464

Camp Young, Cal.: 464

Canada: 143, 470

Canadian Army Technical Development Board: 476

Canan, Col. Howard V.: 72, 73

Caples, Col. W. Goff: 70

Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.: 58

Carnegie Institute: 81

Carrabelle, Fla.: 360, 364, 376, 379

Casablanca conference: 502

Catalogs. See Supplies, nomenclature and numbers.

Caterpillar Tractor Co.: 32, 180, 190, 191-92, 212, 245, 246, 287, 476

Cavalry: 3, 17, 75, 117

Cavalry division, engineer component of. See Squadron, cavalry division.

Cavalry, mechanized. See Armored forces.

Cavalry unit, 7th Cavalry Brigade (Mechanized): 17

Cellular organization: 229-30, 233, 235, 454-55, 456

CENSTOCK: 554-55, 557, 558

Central Pacific theater of operations: 237-38

Central Planning (Section) Branch, OCE: 512, 514

Chaffee, Brig. Gen. Adna R.: 17

Chemical Warfare Service: 117, 241, 318

Cherbourg: 391, 416

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal: 2

Chicago District: 177, 178, 191, 509, 520, 521

Chicago Drainage Canal: 30

Chicago Ordnance District: 549

Chief Engineer, AEF: 65

Chief of Engineers. See also Reybold, Lt. Gen. Eugene; Schley, Maj. Gen. Julian L.

and bridging: 39

duties: 4, 221

and international aid: 196, 197

and landing mat: 57

and recruitment by voluntary enlistment: 294

on spare parts supply overseas: 572

troop organization: 12, 17, 235, 237

Chief of Staff: 4, 12, 122. See also Craig, Gen. Malin; Marshall, Gen. George C.

and ASF: 219

on engineer expansion: 115-16

on engineer supplies: 93

on replacement training program: 162

testimony on appropriations: 94

China: 1

international aid to: 100, 102

petroleum pipelines: 420-23, 425

strategic studies of: 438

China–Burma–India theater of operations

dredges for: 413

maintenance of equipment: 571, 572

petroleum distribution units for: 432, 433-34, 436

roadbuilding: 1, 143, 549

China Defense Supplies, Inc.: 421, 422

Chorpening, Col. Claude H.: 28, 29, 48, 49, 51, 56, 175, 187, 190, 194, 423

Chris-Craft Corp.: 381

Christiansen, Maj. Gen. James G.: 226, 228

Churchill, Winston S.: 182, 469

Chrysler Corp.: 520, 521, 525, 547, 549, 562

Cincinnati District: 509

Civil Affairs and Military Government: 440

Civil War: 2, 36, 38

Civil works: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 97, 120, 121, 135, 221, 401, 411, 509, 521, 575

Civil Works Division, OCE: 4, 5, 7, 8

Civilian personnel. See Personnel, civilian.

Civilian Personnel Branch, OCE: 132

Claiborne-Polk Military Railroad: 275

Clarke, Brig. Gen. Bruce C.: 44, 45, 52, 487-88

Class II supplies.

in catalogs: 533

construction machinery: 33, 34

definition of: 31

priorities for production: 189

priorities in shipping: 194

reductions in allowances: 193

requirements for: 94, 175

Class IV Requirements Board: 501

Class IV supplies: 236

in catalogs: 533

construction machinery: 33, 34

definition of: 31

priorities for production: 189-90

priorities in shipping: 194

procurement

before Pearl Harbor: 94-95, 104, 105-07

purchase by requisition: 198-99, 530

requirements for. See Requirements for supplies, Class IV supplies.

Claterbos, Col. Louis.: 13, 43, 120

Clay, Lt. Gen. Lucius D.: 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 193, 195, 210, 211, 424, 470-71, 492, 519, 522, 523, 524, 544

Cleveland Tractor Co.: 32, 180, 190

Coast Artillery Corps: 117, 204, 368

Coast Guard: 364, 406

Cobb, James A.: 475

Coe, Col. Edward H.: 259

Coe, Miller L.: 475

Collins, Maj. Michael: 444

Columbus ASF Depot: 209, 211, 212, 213, 227, 321, 532, 536, 543, 560, 561, 563-70, 563n

Combat battalions: 254

corps

number of: 239, 351

organization and functions: 139, 225-26, 231, 232

overseas activities: 353

training. See Unit training, AGF, nondivisional units.

divisional

classification and control of: 222

number of, June 1945: 239

organization, equipment and functions: 12, 14-15, 16, 22-23, 34, 136-37, 138, 139, 224, 362-63

training. See Unit training, AGF, combat battalions, divisional; Unit training, before Pearl Harbor.

Combat regiments

corps

classification and control of: 222

Negroes in: 119

officers for: 120

organization, equipment and functions: 16, 24, 34, 68, 138, 139, 225

training. See Unit training, before Pearl Harbor.

divisional: 11, 12, 23, 112

Combat teams: 20, 22, 136, 138

Combined Chiefs of Staff: 183, 184, 186, 403, 450, 501

Command and General Staff School: 111, 159

Components. See Engines and other components.

Congress: 2, 443, 444

Congressional committees: 8

House Appropriations: 93, 136

Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program: 568

Construction battalions: 234, 235, 236-37, 238, 239, 307, 308-09, 310, 578

Construction Division, OCE: 132. See also Military construction program.

construction machinery: 182, 210-11, 316, 523, 524

projects for aviation battalions: 323, 324

transfer of officers to troop duty: 147-48

Construction industry: 3, 282, 575

Construction machinery

adoption of: 29-34, 56, 62-63, 575. See also Enlisted men, mechanical skills required.

allowances: 30-31, 34, 139, 193

armor for: 470-71, 475-76, 575

bantam: 316

control over distribution of: 182, 186, 187, 188, 190, 192, 576

procurement: 88, 89, 93, 98, 99, 106, 182, 190-92, 204, 512, 513, 518-21, 575-76

deliveries: 100, 106-07, 199, 201, 525, 547

percentage of program: 180

road-building set: 35n use in bridge building: 37, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46-47, 48, 496

used: 180, 210-11, 248-49, 284, 320-21, 523-24, 547

Construction machinery industry: 180. See also specific companies by name.

Construction Methods: 29

Construction program. See Military construction program.

Construction regiment, proposed: 232, 233, 234, 236

Construction (Fortifications) Section, OCE: 7, 57, 62, 104

Construction specialist company, proposed: 234

Construction units

reorganization and conversion of: 231-38, 308-10

types and numbers, June 1945: 238

Contracts. See Procurement (Branch) Division, OCE, contracting; Procurement of Supplies, contracts.

Contracts and Claims Branch, OCE: 132

Control Branch, OCE: 216

Controlled Materials Plan: 500, 507, 510, 511-15

Cook, Lt. Col. Coleman P.: 533, 538

Corps Area Engineers: 114

Corps of Chaplains: 157

Corps of Engineers. See Engineers, Corps of.

Couse Laboratories, Inc.: 206

Cowley, Col. W. Eugene: 47, 48, 49, 484, 493

Craig, Gen. Malin: 12

Crawford, Brig. Gen. Roscoe C.: 150-51, 159, 490

Critical Items List: 102

Cross-Channel attack. See also Normandy landings and breakthrough,

mapping requirements: 449

obstacle clearing devices: 472

plans for Army amphibious training: 358, 359, 360, 361, 364, 371, 372, 376, 378

plans for port reconstruction: 392, 400

spare parts requirements: 568

1942 agreements on activation and training plans for: 340

Crowden, Col. James P.: 520

–D–

Dalton, Maj. Gen. Joseph N.: 157

Dau, Col. Frederick J.: 71, 448

Davis, Col. Ellsworth L: 315

Davis, Lt. Col. Eugene L.: 286, 287

Davis, Capt. Warren S.: 195, 523

Davis-Monthan Field, Ariz.: 320

Davison: 414, 415

Davison, Brig. Gen. Donald A.: 25, 56, 58, 60, 330, 392

Dawson, Col. Miles M.: 175, 183, 196, 197, 198, 532-33, 536, 537, 539, 554, 555n, 564, 565

Day, Herbert O.: 484

Daybrook Hydraulic Corp.: 484

Defense Plant Corp.: 203

Demolitions: 468-69

Denman, Morris S.: 175

Depot companies: 11, 15, 26, 35, 36, 115, 221, 222, 229, 231, 564, 570

Depot group headquarters: 231

Depot group headquarters and headquarters companies: 227

Depot Operating Procedure Manual: 536

Depots. See also specific depots; Personnel, civilian, depots; Supplies, distribution of.

functions and facilities: 530, 532, 536, 538, 565

procedures: 536-38

requisitions, tonnage, and line items handled: 536, 541, 543, 555-56, 557

stock control: 537, 538, 540, 555

Deputy Chief of Engineers. See Robins, Maj. Gen. Thomas M.

Desert Warfare Board: 470, 478

Desert Warfare Training Center: 322, 347, 348, 429, 464, 471

Detroit Diesel Division, General Motors Corp.: 516

Detroit District: 520

Development Branch, OCE. See also Besson, Brig. Gen. Frank S., Jr.; Chorpening, Col. Claude H.; Engineering and Development Division, OCE.

air compressors: 33-34

Class IV supplies: 501

equipment specifications: 98

equipment standardization: 208

functions and staff: 27, 28

petroleum pipeline test: 423

port repair ships: 401

Dieppe raid: 472

Distribution factors: 179, 180, 193-95

District Engineers. See District offices.

District offices: 5, 234. See also districts by name.

procurement activities. See also Procurement of supplies, administrative organization.

Controlled Materials Plan: 512, 514

engines and other components: 515-16

Production Requirements Plan: 199

spare parts: 561-62, 569

projects for aviation battalions: 323

recruitment of dredge crews: 412

recruitment of officers commissioned from civil life: 156, 157, 272, 281

Reserve officer training: 114-15

transfer of officers to troop duty: 147, 148

Division Engineers. See Division offices.

Division offices: 5

procurement activities. See procurement of supplies, administrative organization, projects for aviation battalions: 323, 324

recruitment of officers commissioned from civil life: 156, 281

recruitment of specialists: 282

supervision of depot activities: 554

transfer of officers to troop duty: 147

used construction machinery: 524

Doll, J. G.: 477

Draft: See Selective Service Act.

Dredges: 392, 411-16

DUKW: 375-76

Dump truck companies: 11, 26, 35, 115, 118, 119-20, 222, 238, 270. See also Unit training, ASF; Engineer Unit Training Centers, Camp Ellis; Engineer Unit Training Centers, Camp Sutton.

Du Pont, E. I. De Nemours & Co., Inc.: 469

–E–

Eastman Kodak Co.: 74

Edwards, Maj. Gen. Idwal H.: 377

Eglin Field, Fla.: 319, 320, 322

Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D.: 372, 378, 392, 393, 400, 402, 451, 468, 475

Eister, Lt. Col. William D.: 320, 321

Eklund, Col. Karl F.: 35, 470, 471, 473-74

Elder, John: 424, 428, 429

Electric accounting machines. See IBM systems.

Electric lighting equipment: 108, 204

Emery: 403, 407

Emmons, Lt. Gen. Delos C.: 18

Engineer Advance Planning Committee: 501

Engineer Amphibian Command: 298, 427, 472. See also Amphibious training, Engineer Amphibian Command.

Engineer armored vehicle: 475, 481, 481n

Engineer Aviation Unit Training Centers: 314, 320, 324, 334-35. See also Unit training, AAF, center system.

Engineer Board: 7, 15

administration and functions: 8, 13, 27, 28-29, 464-66

barrage balloons: 204

bridging: 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 483, 484, 486, 487, 490, 492, 494, 495, 497

camouflage: 81-82, 83, 84, 85, 86

clearance of mines and other obstacles: 53-54, 468-70, 471, 475, 477, 479, 480

combat battalions, divisional: 23

construction machinery: 30, 31, 32, 33, 316, 475-76

engineer armored vehicle: 481

evaluation of activities: 574-75

executive officer. See Baker, Col. William C., Jr.; Young, Capt. James M.

forestry companies: 142

landing mat: 58, 59, 60, 61-62, 467

mapping equipment: 66, 69, 73, 74, 448

mobile repair shops: 206

petroleum distribution: 423, 424, 428, 429, 432

port repair ships: 401

searchlight mirror plant: 91

supply and maintenance units: 35-36, 227, 228

water supply equipment: 141, 467

Engineer Central Stock Control Agency: 554-55, 557, 558

Engineer Department: 5, 147, 411. See also District offices; Division offices.

Engineer Field Depot Office: 536, 540, 554, 555, 564

Engineer Field Maintenance Office: 287, 561, 567, 569

Engineer Officer Candidate School. See Officer Candidate School.

Engineer Officer Replacement Pool: 536

Engineer Replacement Training Centers: 116, 119, 120, 132, 158. See also Instructors and administrative staffs, Engineer Replacement Training Centers; Replacement training; Specialists, training, at Engineer Replacement Training Centers.

Camp Abbot: 257-59

capacities, input, and output: 119n, 161, 166, 174, 242, 249, 257, 260, 261, 269, 314-15, 350-51

conversion to Army Service Forces Training Centers: 313

evaluation: 268-69

Fort Belvoir: 161

Fort Leonard Wood: 158, 161-62

instructors for EAC: 368

instructors for unit training centers: 272, 273, 286, 298, 307

OCS quotas: 150, 152

Engineer Reproduction Plant: 7, 66, 74, 78, 79, 132, 441-42

Engineer Research Office: 439-40, 450, 457, 459, 462

Engineer School: 7, 8, 13, 15, 109, 110, 122, 132, 304. See also Officer Candidate School; Research courses.

equipment development: 28

beach obstacle clearance: 475, 481

camouflage: 82

training

curriculum, faculty, and output: 111, 113, 114, 120, 124-25, 158-60

mine warfare traveling detachment: 347-48

specialist: 116, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 262, 263

unit: 125, 307

troop organization bridge company, armored battalion: 52

combat battalion, divisional: 23, 137

engineer component of Army corps: 24

ponton units: 141

reduction in types of general units: 138-39

Engineer Unit Training Centers. See also Instructors and administrative staffs, Engineer Unit Training Centers; Specialists, training, at unit training centers; Unit training, ASF.

Camp Claiborne, La.: 293, 294, 298, 316, 394, 538, 539

absorption of specialist candidates into units: 251-52

administrative organization: 278, 279, 292

conversion to Army Service Forces Training Center: 293

description: 270-72, 280

output: 277, 278, 291, 296

proposed training of port repair ship crews: 400

reception of voluntarily enlisted specialists for AGF: 349

training of AGF supply and maintenance units: 343

training of dredge crews: 413

training of officers: 159, 282, 295

Camp Ellis, Ill.: 277, 293, 295, 296-306, 313

Camp Sutton, N.C.: 277, 293, 296, 306-13

evaluation and output: 313

Engineer units

Battalions

1st Engineer Combat: 112

4th Engineer Combat: 112, 125

6th Engineer Combat: 112

12th Engineer Combat: 125, 126

15th Engineer Combat: 126

16th Engineer Armored: 44, 47

17th Engineer Armored: 49, 126

22nd Engineer Armored: 486

24th Engineer Armored: 487, 488

29th Engineer Topographic (Army) : 70

30th Engineer Topographic (GHQ): 78, 449

85th Engineer Heavy Ponton: 128

87th Engineer Heavy Ponton: 49, 368

89th Engineer Heavy Ponton: 128

90th Engineer Heavy Ponton: 128

97th Engineer Separate: 127

286th Engineer Combat: 351-52

405th Engineer Water Supply: 226

411th Engineer Base Shop: 381, 382, 383, 384, 385

692nd Engineer Base Shop: 389

803rd Engineer Aviation: 127

809th Engineer Aviation: 127

821st Engineer Aviation: 323

833rd Engineer Aviation: 314-15

835th Engineer Aviation: 322, 323

850th Engineer Aviation: 322, 323

857th Engineer Aviation: 322

871st Engineer Airborne (experimental) : 316

1272nd Engineer Combat: 352

1696th Engineer Combat: 352

Brigades

1st Engineer Amphibian: 365, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 389, 390,

2nd Engineer Amphibian: 372, 373, 376, 379, 382, 383, 384, 388, 390

3rd Engineer Amphibian: 370, 372, 376, 379, 382, 385, 386, 388, 390

4th Engineer Amphibian: 385, 386, 388, 389

5th Special: 390

6th Special: 390

Companies

32nd Engineer Combat (Separate): 104

56th Engineer Shop: 35

70th Engineer Light Ponton: 39, 52, 112

73rd Engineer Light Ponton: 128

Detachments

Engineer School: 111, 118

Wright Field: 65, 66, 71, 447, 448

Groups

1051st Engineer Port Construction and Repair: 416

1104th Engineer Combat: 345

1114th Engineer Combat: 345

1118th Engineer Combat: 345

Regiments

1st Engineer Combat: 112

3rd Engineer Combat: 127

5th Engineer Combat: 32, 39, 40

18th Engineer Combat: 104, 112

19th Engineer Combat: 125

21st Engineer Aviation: 56, 58, 60, 62, 129, 315, 420

21st Engineer General Service: 112

31st Engineer Combat: 345

35th Engineer Combat: 297

36th Engineer Combat: 342

37th Engineer Combat: 368

39th Engineer Combat: 342

40th Engineer Combat: 342

41st Engineer General Service: 118-19, 126-27, 297

43rd Engineer General Service: 117

131st Engineer Combat: 342

132nd Engineer Combat: 345

133rd Engineer Combat: 342, 345

361st Engineer General (Special) Service: 295, 298

532nd Engineer Shore: 342, 373

924th Engineer Aviation: 320

1301st Engineer General Service: 301, 302, 305-06

1303rd Engineer General Service: 305-06

1306th Engineer General Service: 305-06

1317th Engineer General Service: 303

Troops

47th Engineer Mechanized: 17

Engineering and Development Division, OCE: 217, 466, 467, 495

Engineering Section, OCE: 62

Engineering Societies Library: 439

Engineers, Corps of. See also Mission; Office of the Chief of Engineers; Strength.

administration

and reorganization of War Department: 135, 136, 219-21, 574

before 1942: 4-5, 7-8

historical sketch: 1-4

modernization: 27, 36

summary and evaluation: 134-35, 216, 579-80

Engines and other components: 191, 511, 514, 515-17, 518-21, 546, 547, 549, 562, 563

Enlisted men. See also Army General Classification Test; Cadres; Fillers; Specialists; Strength.

classification and assignment: 116, 117-18, 295-96, 318

handicapped: 163, 165-66, 299

mechanical skills required: 109, 119, 139, 140, 231, 232-33, 239-40, 247, 576-77

rotation of: 267

summary and evaluation: 576-77

training and experience in peacetime: 110, 111

Ensign-Bickford Co.: 469

Equipment commercial nature of: 27, 89, 96

computation of requirements for. See Requirements for supplies.

development of: 7, 8. See also specific items of equipment.

agencies involved in: 27-29

curtailment of program: 464-66

summary and evaluation: 29, 62-63, 496-97, 573-75

maintenance of. See Maintenance of equipment, operational. See Class IV supplies.

organizational. See Class II supplies.

procurement of. See Procurement of supplies.

standardization of. See Maintenance of equipment, standardization.

for training: 92-93, 100, 105, 108, 112, 163, 170-71, 172-73, 254-55, 264, 274-75, 276-77, 284-85, 293, 305, 307, 308, 309, 316-17, 320-21, 341, 347, 348, 353, 395, 397, 432. See also Construction machinery, used.

weight of: 31, 32, 33, 63, 574. See also Tanks, weight and width of.

Equipment companies: 35, 222, 229, 231. See also Base equipment companies; Light equipment companies.

Esgate, E. E.: 142

Eugene Dietzgen Co.: 203, 518

European Theater of Operations. See also Cross-Channel attack.

amphibian brigades: 372, 390

armored construction machinery: 476

aviation units: 234-35

bridging: 306, 485-86, 490, 494, 496, 551

combat battalions, nondivisional: 353

comments on officers: 160

forestry companies: 290-91

general service regiments: 234-35, 305-06

maintenance of equipment: 214, 571, 572

map supply and strategic intelligence: 438, 449-50, 451, 452-53, 457-59. See also France, map supply and strategic intelligence.

mine field clearance: 480

monthly reports: 502

organization of construction units in: 238

petroleum distribution: 424, 427, 434, 436

port reconstruction: 391, 392, 398-99, 402, 406, 407, 410, 411, 412-13, 415, 416

supplies: 214-15, 504, 506, 507, 572

training recommendations: 397

Evinrude Motor Co.: 244

–F–

Facilities equipment development: 28, 29, 464

industrial

allocation: 88, 89, 91, 92, 97, 98, 99

conversion: 180-81

expansion: 91, 96, 182, 191, 203, 516, 519, 523, 524, 525, 547

map compilation and reproduction: 442

storage. See Depots.

training: 128, 166, 170, 242, 243, 274, 275, 276-77, 293, 296, 302-03, 306, 307-08, 313. See also specific camps and centers.

Factory schools. See Trade schools.

Fairchild Aerial Surveys: 456

Fairchild Aviation Corp.: 71

Falmouth Marine Railway: 364

Farrell: 403, 407

Federal Standard Stock Catalog Classification: 539

Federation of Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Production Clubs: 83

Ferguson, Glenn D.: 484

Ferries. See Rafts and ferries.

Field armies

bridging for: 39, 49

engineer component of: 139. See also Group system of organization.

supply and maintenance units for: 35-36

Field Artillery: 20

camouflage: 85-86

comment on engineer combat mission: 21-22

Engineer Board representative: 29

mapping: 64, 66, 69, 71, 72, 75, 76, 80, 447

specialists required: 117

Field exercises: 265-66, 280-81, 293, 294, 322-23, 330

Field manuals: 11, 22, 70, 72, 73, 76

Fillers

AAF units: 314-15, 318

AGF units: 340, 341, 342, 343, 349-50, 351-52, 353

construction units

Camp Claiborne: 247, 272, 273-74, 275, 283, 284, 292, 294, 295, 296

Camp Ellis: 298, 299-300, 303, 304-05

heavy shop companies: 287

lack of unit training: 166

petroleum distribution units: 430, 433

port reconstruction units: 394, 395, 400, 403, 407, 410, 412, 413, 414

source of: 161, 162, 256

Finance Department: 117

Fire fighting detachments: 230

Fire fighting school: 434

First Army: 128

Fiscal Branch, OCE: 132

Forestry companies: 142, 156, 222, 229, 278, 289-91, 293, 295

Fort Belvoir, Va.: 7, 8, 27, 28, 36, 47, 48, 161

Commanding General. See Marks, Brig. Gen. Edwin H.

training of dredge crews at: 413, 414

training of port repair ship crews at: 407, 410, 411

Fort Benning, Ga.: 49, 52

Fort Devens, Mass.: 385, 389

Fort DuPont, Del.: 412, 413, 414

Fort Eben-Emael, Belgium: 19-20

Fort Knox, Ky.: 17, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49

Fort Lawton, Wash.: 405

Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.: 128, 158, 161-62

Fort Lewis, Wash.: 128, 291, 360

Fort McClellan, Ala.: 349

Fort Peck Dam, Mont.: 5, 28

Fort Pierce, Fla.: 464, 473, 474

Fort Pulaski, Ga.: 402

Fort Screven, Ga.: 394, 395-96, 397, 402, 403

Fortifications: 18-19, 20-21, 53

Fortifications Section, OCE. See Construction (Fortifications) Section, OCE.

Foundary detachments: 277-78

Four Wheel Drive Auto Co.: 483, 484

Fourth Air Force: 322

Fourth Army: 128, 352-53

Fowler, Brig. Gen. Raymond F.: 134, 217, 554

equipment development: 465

Negro personnel: 119

officers commissioned from civil life: 156

petroleum pipelines: 423

supply

administrative organization for procurement: 509-10

Class IV requirements: 500-501, 505

construction machinery: 180, 182, 211, 524

engines and other components: 515, 519, 520

international aid: 183, 186, 196, 197-98, 499

material shortages: 191

officers for: 536

priorities: 189-90

procurement program: 517, 519, 544, 545

replacement and distribution factors: 194

spare parts: 213, 214, 559, 563, 567

stock control: 537, 544, 555

troop organization

combat battalion, divisional: 136

general units: 138, 139

supply and maintenance units: 227

visits to theaters of operations: 502

France

fall of: 18

maps and strategic intelligence: 440, 449, 456, 457-59

World War I: 2

Frank, Col. Simon N.: 187

Franklin Technical Institute of Boston: 246

French Army: 54, 57, 477

French Information Center: 459

French National Geographic Institute: 458

Funds. See also Appropriations.

Class IV supplies: 34-35, 95, 104, 105-06

equipment development: 28, 29, 30, 39, 47, 57, 58, 464, 574

international aid: 100, 102, 176, 184

mapping: 69, 443, 444

scarcity of: 5, 17

supply and maintenance units: 35, 36

–G–

Gallant, Col. Edward B.: 382

Galloway, Col. Gerald E.: 13, 113

Garcia, Maj. Marcelino, Jr.: 393, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 406

Garcia and Diaz: 393

Garlington, Brig. Gen. Creswell: 23, 267

Gas generators and gas generating detachments: 230, 466-67

Geiger Field, Wash.: 319, 320, 321, 324, 325, 328, 334, 335

General Electric Co.: 91, 98, 203, 518

General Headquarters Air Force: 4, 18, 25, 57, 60, 61

Engineer. See Davison, Brig. Gen. Donald A.

General Headquarters Army: 4, 10, 23, 77, 80, 125, 135

General Motors Corp.: 191, 245

General Scheduling Order M-293: 516, 517, 519

General service battalions: 238

General service regiments: 15, 578

construction in Middle East and United Kingdom: 155, 270

control of: 221, 222, 343

demand for: 115, 144, 145

fillers. See Fillers, construction units.

for Negroes: 237-38, 310

Negroes in: 118

number of, June 1945: 238, 239

officers: 120, 123, 272, 273, 281-82, 295

organization, equipment, and functions: 11, 16, 24, 33, 34, 138, 139, 143, 225, 226, 231-37

airfield construction: 18, 62

petroleum distribution: 427

port construction and repair: 391

theater requirements and use: 305-06, 234-35

training. See Engineer Unit Training Centers, Camp Ellis, Ill.; Engineer Unit Training Centers, Camp Sutton, N. C.; Unit training, ASF; Unit training, before Pearl Harbor.

General Staff. See also Chief of Staff, camouflage: 82

Deputy Chief of Staff. See McNarney, Gen. Joseph T.

engineer combat mission: 20

engineer intelligence: 438, 440

equipment

bridges: 37-38, 51, 491, 492

mine field clearance: 476

petroleum pipeline systems: 420

weight of: 31, 41, 495

mapping: 64, 70, 71, 72-73, 75, 76-77, 81, 441, 444, 449, 451, 452, 453

personnel

AAF troops for build-up in Britain: 332

distribution: 342, 350, 351

increases and reductions: 25, 115, 252-53, 456

officers: 121, 157

port repair ships: 408

relationships of Engineers with: 13-14, 135, 136, 146, 574

supplies

allowances: 193

Class IV: 95, 104, 105, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506-07, 576

engines: 191

international aid: 183, 184, 187

requirements computation: 94, 176

troop organization and training

AGF nondivisional units: 343

amphibious: 358, 360, 363, 369, 377, 379, 380, 382, 385, 387, 388

aviation engineers: 56

combat battalions, divisional: 14, 15, 16, 23, 137

construction units: 232-33, 235-36

corps units: 16, 139

general service regiments: 140, 145

group system: 232

maintenance units: 36

officers: 114, 151

petroleum distribution units: 427

port construction and repair groups: 393

replacement training: 162, 167

separate battalions: 140

specialist schools: 328

unit training centers: 277, 311

War Department reorganization: 135, 136

General units: 11, 25

reduction in types: 138-40

training program: 125

Geographical Section General Staff, British War Office: 444, 445, 446, 456

German Army

amphibious doctrine: 357

engineers: 14, 15, 16, 19-20, 24, 43-44, 53

mines and other obstacles: 1, 54, 347, 468, 476-77, 478

offensive in western Europe, 1940. See Blitzkrieg.

river crossings: 42, 47, 49, 130-31

tanks: 41

German Navy: 457

German prisoners of war: 307, 313

German Sixth Army: 76

Germany, equipment development: 42, 66, 71, 574, 575

Gerr, Stanley: 462

Godfrey, Brig. Gen. Stuart C.: 13, 19, 334, 337, 338

aviation engineers airborne tactics: 315

fillers and replacements: 328, 331

on inactivation of units: 332-33

officers: 156

as service troops: 25-26

training: 318-19, 322, 325-27, 329-30

on Engineer representation in General Staff: 13

equipment

bridging: 41, 44, 46, 52

construction machinery: 34

mine detectors: 54, 55

petroleum pipeline systems: 420

procurement: 93

officer qualifications: 123-24

river crossing tactics: 37

Goerz, Col. Peter P.: 466

Goldsmith, Lester M.: 426

Gorlinski, Col. Joseph S.: 501, 502

on heavy shop company training: 288

maintenance units: 570, 571

officers for Negro units: 312

port reconstruction: 402, 406, 407-08, 410, 416

on replacement training program: 261-62

specialist training: 244

Gowen Field, Idaho: 320

Grabau, Capt. B. I.: 383, 385

Grades and ratings: 576, 578

construction units: 232-33, 236, 237

dredge crews: 412

voluntarily enlisted specialists: 349-50

Granite City Engineer Depot: 263, 536, 538, 539, 543, 555, 560n, 564

Grant, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S., III: 36, 152

Gravelle, Capt. Gordon: 490

Gray, Maj. Roe: 431, 432

Gray Marine Motor Co.: 383

Great Britain. See also British Army; British Navy.

build-up in: 1, 144, 213, 331, 541, 543

cross-Channel attack: 360, 364

equipment development: 575

armored vehicles: 470, 472, 481, 482

bangalore torpedo: 468

barrage balloons: 204

bridging: 39, 50, 51

camouflage: 86

landing mat: 57

pipeline couplings: 418

equipment maintenance: 571

international aid to: 100, 102, 176, 182-83, 184, 186-88, 196-97, 198, 499, 501

map supply. See Map supply, division of responsibility with Great Britain.

military observers in: 25, 28, 51, 472, 485, 486

petroleum pipeline tests: 428

port reconstruction: 392, 401, 403

training of engineer troops in: 172

Great Lakes Division: 509, 521, 522, 547

Grefe, Maj. Richard F.: 321

Greulich, Gerald G.: 58, 60, 61

Gridley, Col. Richard: 2

Griswold: 403, 407, 408, 409

Ground Engineer. See Hughes, Col. John B.

Group system of organization: 225, 227, 230-32, 234, 235-36, 345-46, 354, 416, 577-78. See also Port reconstruction, port construction and repair group.

Guston-Bacon Co.: 425

–H–

Hains: 411, 415

Hall, Col. James G.: 453

Hammer Field, Cal.: 322

Handy, Gen. Thomas T.: 377

Hanley, Maj. Gen. Thomas J., Jr.: 451-52

Hanlon-Waters, Inc.: 423

Hanson Clutch and Machinery Co.: 103

Harding: 411

Harding, Col. Chester K.: 41

Harris-Seybold-Potter Co.: 75

Harrison, Col. Raymond L.: 209, 561

Harrison Equipment Co.: 209

Harvard University: 373

Hassinger, Lt. Col. John H.: 186, 190, 191, 192, 199, 210, 212

Hays, 1st Lt. George M.: 470

Hazeltine Service Corp.: 54

Heavy ponton battalions: 26

classification and control of: 222

organization and functions: 11, 51-52, 141, 226

training: 128, 345

Heavy shop companies: 229, 570, 571

control of: 222

organization and functions: 207-08, 286

personnel and training: 277, 286-88, 295

Hedden Metal Locators, Inc.: 54

Heileman, Maj. Gen. Frank A.: 233

Hercules Motors Corp.: 516, 519

Herrington, Col. Russel McK.: 70, 72

Hertford, Brig. Gen. Kenner F.: 13

Hewitt, Rear Admiral Henry K.: 376, 377, 378

Higgins, Andrew J.: 356

Higgins Industries, Inc.: 367, 380, 381, 383, 385

Hiller, Maj. Maurice L.: 234, 235

Hoel, Maj. Alfred G., Jr.: 468, 469, 472, 473, 482

Holabird Quartermaster Depot: 419, 420

Holt, Col. Andrew H.: 533

Hoover, Herbert: 424

Hoover Dam: 29

Hopkins, Harry L.: 469

Horni Signal Manufacturing Corp.: 479

Hoskins, Lt. Col. Harry D.: 380-81, 383, 385

Hotine, Col. Martin: 445, 449

Howard, Lt. Col. George W.: 486, 490, 495-96

Howard, Needles, Tammen, and Burgendoff: 495

Hughes, Col. John B.: 225

authority accorded by AGF headquarters: 337-38

equipment for nondivisional combat battalions: 353-54

specialists recruited by voluntary enlistment: 350

training

mine warfare: 347

ponton units: 345

time allotted: 352-53

troop organization

combat battalions, nondivisional: 351

group system: 346

supply and maintenance units: 227, 228-29

water supply units: 226

Hull, Lt. Gen. John E.: 332

Hyde: 414

–I–

IBM systems: 532, 533, 541, 564, 566, 569

Imperial Dam: 464

Industry. See also Construction machinery industry.

equipment development: 27, 42, 57, 58, 62, 83, 141, 467, 575. See also individual firms by name.

preparation of maps: 78, 79

recruitment of military personnel: 3, 282, 287, 365, 430, 575

Infantry: 20, 26

camouflage: 86

instructors for EAC: 368

mapping: 75

specialists required: 117, 241

tank weights: 37-38

Infantry division. See also Square division; Triangular division.

bridging: 39, 41, 49

engineer component. See Combat battalions, divisional; Combat regiments, divisional.

percentage of engineer strength in: 12, 14, 15, 16, 224

reorganization: 12,14-15, 22, 23, 68

Infantry divisions. See Army Ground Forces units, Divisions.

Infantry Journal: 19

Infiltration courses. See Obstacle courses.

Information Bulletins: 8, 27

Ingalls, Col. Robert D.: 297-98, 299, 300, 301-02, 303, 304, 305, 305n

Inspections and investigations: 8

Camp Ellis, Ill.: 299, 303, 303n, 305

Camp Sutton, N. C.: 308, 311

Engineer Amphibian Command: 370-71

Engineer Section, Columbus ASF Depot: 566, 568

Fort DuPont, Del.: 414

Jefferson Barracks, Mo.: 327

replacement training: 268

Inspector General, The

on AGF nondivisional units: 340, 345

and Engineer Amphibian Command: 370

and supply operations: 505, 566

Inspector General’s Department, The: 303n

Instruction and testing

Engineer Officer Candidate School: 154, 155

Engineer Replacement Training Centers: 163, 165, 172, 173-74

Instructors and administrative staffs

AAF basic training center, Jefferson Barracks, Mo.: 319, 324, 327

AGF units: 341, 352

Engineer Amphibian Command: 368, 390

Engineer Officer Candidate School: 151-52, 153-54

Engineer Replacement Training Centers: 125, 158, 163, 166, 167, 171, 172, 173, 249-50, 258, 260, 266-68

Engineer Unit Training Centers: 272, 273, 275, 278-80, 283, 286-87, 292, 298, 300, 304, 305, 307, 311-12

petroleum distribution unit training: 429, 432

Intelligence. See Reconnaissance; Strategic intelligence.

Intelligence (Branch, Section) Division, OCE: 132, 217. See also Loper, Brig. Gen. Herbert B.

functions: 7

and mapping: 27, 444, 456, 458

and strategic intelligence: 438-39, 440, 450, 457, 458-59, 461, 462

and topographic units: 455

International aid

administration, policies, and procedures: 182-84, 195-98

Army Supply Program: 179

common stockpile, Great Britain: 186-88, 189-90, 196, 197, 198, 499, 501

petroleum pipeline, China: 420-23, 425

priorities: 187, 189-90

reductions: 498, 499-500

Russia: 499, 500

transfers from Treasury Department: 184, 186

1941: 100, 102, 104, 105

1942: 175, 176, 198

1943: 525

International Business Machines Corp.: 532

International Detrola Corp.: 479

International (Aid) (Branch, Section) Division, OCE: 175-76, 183, 195-98, 217, 499. See also Molnar, Lt. Col. Theodore T.

International Geographical Union: 457

International Harvester Co.: 32, 180

International Supply Committee: 183, 187-88, 196

Irving Subway Co.: 61

Italian campaign amphibian brigades: 372, 390

maps and strategic intelligence: 456, 457

mines and other obstacles: 1, 468, 476-77, 480

port reconstruction: 391

supplies: 543

tank dozer: 475

water supply: 226

Italian collaborators: 307

Italian National Research Council: 457

Italian Service Units: 541

–J–

Japan: 438, 461-63

Japanese Army: 357, 468

Japanese Imperial Land Survey: 461

Jefferson Barracks, Mo.: 317-19, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329

Johns, Brig. Gen. Dwight F.: 60

Johnson, Drake & Piper, Inc.: 393

Joint Army-Navy Intelligence Studies: 457

Joint Army and Navy Personnel Board: 232

Joint Chiefs of Staff: 361, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 402, 408, 409, 457, 459

Joint U.S. Staff Planners: 360, 378

Joint U.S. Strategic Committee: 360

–K–

Karstens, Maj. Chauncey W.: 424, 426, 428

Kaye, Col. Minton W.: 446, 451, 452, 453

King, Admiral Ernest J.: 359, 369, 376, 377, 378, 382

Kingman, Brig. Gen. John J.: 7, 8, 9

duties: 132

equipment development: 29

bridges: 38, 39, 41, 44, 48, 52

landing mat: 59, 61

mapping: 69, 71, 74

Negro personnel: 119

officers: 121, 122

petroleum pipeline systems: 422

research courses: 22

strength: 16, 115

supplies: 36

Class IV: 95, 105

procurement contracts: 98

procurement planning: 91

procurement program: 93, 96, 102

troop organization: 13

armored units: 17.

aviation units: 18, 25, 56, 140

general units: 138

maintenance units: 36

Knudsen, Lt. Gen. William S.: 180, 182, 525, 547

Krueger, Gen. Walter: 130, 344, 345

Krum, Arthur E.: 175

Krumbein, Dr. William C.: 439, 457

Kuldell, Brig. Gen. Rudolph C.: 217, 554, 556, 557, 559, 572

–L–

Labor shortages: 203, 408, 546, 547, 549

Lake, Maj. James L.: 429, 431

Lake Charles, La., airport: 129

Landing craft. See Amphibious equipment, landing craft.

Landing mat

development of 56-62, 63, 467, 575

in maneuvers: 62, 129

procurement of: 201, 204, 518, 525

training in laying of: 301, 322, 323

LaPlante-Choate Co.: 98, 471, 473, 474

Lathrop Engineer Depot: 383, 541, 543

Lawrence: 403

Lebourg, Maurice: 477

Ledo Road: 1, 143, 549

Legal Branch, OCE: 132

Le Havre, France: 391

Lend-lease. See International aid.

Lend-Lease Act: 100

Lentz, Brig. Gen. John M.: 344-45

LeTourneau. See R. G. LeTourneau, Inc.

Light equipment companies: 222, 225, 229. See also Base equipment companies; Equipment companies.

Light ponton companies: 15,26, 49

classification and control of: 222

Negroes in: 118, 119

organization, equipment and functions: 11, 16, 51-52, 141, 226

training: 128

Lima, Ohio: 547

Linkswiler, Col. Gilbert E.: 32

Loper, Brig. Gen. Herbert B.: 78, 79-81, 230, 441, 443, 444, 445, 448, 451, 453, 455, 456, 457, 458, 461

Loper-Hotine Agreement: 445-46, 449

Louisiana maneuver area: 128-29

Lower Mississippi Valley Division: 5, 147

Lyman: 414

–M–

MacArthur, Gen. Douglas: 1n, 234, 359, 380, 382, 384, 385, 386, 387, 390, 448, 459, 462, 476, 572

McChord Field, Wash.: 330

McCloy, John J.: 346

McCoach, Maj. Gen. David, Jr.: 132

McCook Field: 65

MacDill Field, Fla.: 320, 324, 334, 335

McNair, Lt. Gen. Lesley J.: 354

as administrator: 337, 338

on amphibian brigades: 387

combat training emphasis: 338, 339, 574

and manpower shortages: 343

mine warfare training: 346-47

nondivisional unit training: 340, 343, 344, 345

and specialists recruited by voluntary enlistment: 349

troop unit organization: 23, 223, 224-25, 226, 228, 229, 574

on 1941 maneuvers: 130

McNarney, Gen. Joseph T.: 267, 359, 360

Madigan, Michael J.: 523, 524

Maginot Line: 19

Magruder, Brig. Gen. John: 421, 422, 423

Maintenance companies: 206, 221, 222, 228-29, 231, 321, 570, 571

Maintenance (Section) Division, OCE: 176, 206, 211, 212, 217, 228. See also Smith, Col. C. Rodney.

Maintenance of equipment. See also Base shop battalions; Foundry detachments; Heavy shop companies; Maintenance companies; Parts supply companies; Shop companies; Spare parts.

echelons of: 206-07, 207n

landing craft: 370

standardization: 192, 207-10, 214, 560, 562, 572. See also Construction machinery, used, at training stations: 321

Malony, Maj. Gen. Harry J.: 77

Manchester: 403, 407, 408

Maneuvers: 22, 24, 52, 62, 78-80, 82, 86-87, 93, 113, 128-31, 136, 227, 419-20, 441. See also Field exercises.

Manhattan District: 307

Manila, P. I.: 415-16

Map supply. See also specific theaters of operations; Army Map Service; Engineer Reproduction Plant; Theaters of operations, mapping, division of responsibility with AAF: 70. See also Mapping, aerial photography.

division of responsibility with Great Britain: 444, 445-46, 449-50, 451, 457, 458, 463

program for: 77-78, 441-46

Mapping: 7

administrative control of: 78, 451, 452, 453-54

aerial photography: 456, 459

advantages and limitations of: 65, 441

personnel and aircraft for: 68-69, 70-71, 72, 73, 75-77, 78, 79, 81, 446, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453

trimetrogon versus wide-angle vertical: 446-54, 460, 463

in maneuvers: 78-80, 441

speed of production: 70, 72, 73, 75, 76-77, 441

summary and evaluation: 463, 580

tests: 66, 70, 72, 447

Mapping equipment: 574

aerocartograph: 66

cameras

portable copying: 74

T-3a: 65, 70, 71, 72

T-5: 71, 72, 447

tri-lens: 65

wide-angle: 446, 447

multiplex aeroprojector: 66, 71, 442, 448-49

procurement of: 93, 99, 106, 108, 201, 203, 204, 518, 525

stereocomparagraph: 65-66

Mapping techniques: 64-66, 70, 447-48

Maps

coverage and scale: 64, 66, 72, 76-77, 79-81, 447-48, 449, 451-52

reproduction of: 66, 68, 73-75, 78, 458, 462

March Field, Cal.: 320, 324, 325, 327, 329, 330, 331

Mariemont, Ohio, searchlight mirror plant: 91, 96, 518

Marine Corps

amphibious operations: 364, 378

development of doctrine for: 355-57

in Pacific theaters of operations: 359, 360, 361

provision of instructors for Engineer Amphibian Command: 368

equipment development: 27

tractor requirements: 182

Marine Corps unit, 1st Marine Division: 380

Marine Design Section, Philadelphia District. See Philadelphia District, port repair ships and crews.

Marion Engineer Depot: 536, 543, 565

Maritime School, Brooklyn, N. Y.: 414

Maritime Service schools: 406, 407

Marks, Brig. Gen. Edwin H.: 466

Marksmanship: 163, 170-72, 264, 285-86, 299, 304

Marshall, Gen. George C.: 93, 220, 340, 378, 386, 411, 415, 449, 471

Mason, Dr. Martin A.: 439, 457

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 393

Materials

allocation. See Controlled Materials Plan; Production Requirements Plan.

substitutions: 82-83, 103-04, 201, 203, 466, 551, 553

supply and shortage: 102-03, 182, 188-89, 190, 191, 199, 201, 213, 215, 223, 408, 518, 523, 547, 549, 551, 553, 562

Matteson, Col. William J.: 466

Matthews, Col. Albert G.: 442, 461, 462

Mayo, Col. George: 57, 58, 59, 60, 334

Mechanical aptitude tests: 246, 247

Medical Department: 117, 134, 440, 563

Medical Department units: 365

Mediterranean theater of operations: 438. See also Italian campaign; France; North African campaign.

Mehaffey, Maj. Gen. Joseph G.: 136

Meissner, Clarence E.: 58

Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.: 393

Metropolitan Technical School of New York: 246

Meyers, Charles W.: 58

Middle Atlantic Division: 509, 521, 522

Middle East

construction of bases: 143-44, 147, 155, 156, 270, 275

international aid: 102

Military construction program: 9, 132, 216. See also Construction Division, OCE.

effect on procurement organization: 132, 134, 177, 178, 509

effect on troop activities: 134, 575

officer supply: 121-22, 123, 147-48, 156, 174, 577

recruitment by voluntary enlistment: 273, 282, 293, 294

Military Division, OCE: 4, 7-8, 17, 23, 27, 28, 31, 33, 47

Military Engineer, The: 19

Military Mission to China: 421, 422

Military observers: 19, 25, 28, 51, 472, 485, 486

Military Personnel (Section) Branch, OCE: 132. See also Bessell, Brig. Gen. William W., Jr.

functions: 7

officers

classification system: 124

commissioned from civil life: 156, 157

rotation: 267

supply activities: 536

transfer from military construction to troop duty: 147, 148

port repair ship crews: 406, 410

recruitment for amphibian brigades: 365

Miller, Brig. Gen. Lehman W.: 311

Milwit, Col. Herbert: 449

Mine detectors: 480-81, 482, 575

AN/PRS-1: 478, 479

AN/VRS-1: 477-78

for metallic mines

AN/PRS-3: 479

SCR-625: 53-55, 468, 477, 478, 479

for nonmetallic mines: 478, 479

vehicular mounted: 477-78

Mine field clearance: 53, 468-70, 471, 476, 479-81, 482-83, 497

Aunt Jemina: 476

rockets: 481n scorpion: 470, 471, 480, 482

snake: 470, 471, 476, 480, 481, 481n

Mine warfare training: 346-48. See also Training, realism in.

Mission: 1-3, 11, 27, 62, 468

amphibious operations: 21, 357, 358, 361, 475

with armored forces: 17, 22, 43-44

with Army Air Forces: 11,18

camouflage: 81, 82, 87

combat: 2, 15, 16, 19-22, 254, 481, 483

combat versus service: 25-26, 135, 142-43, 238-39, 573-74

with infantry division: 11, 12, 14, 22

influence of World War I on: 10-11

mapping: 64

mine warfare: 347

petroleum distribution: 417, 420-25

port reconstruction: 391-92

river crossings: 21, 36-37, 42

supply: 88, 135, 219, 536, 540, 576

Mobile District: 177

Mobile reproduction train: 73-74, 78

Mobile shop company: 206

Mobility: 10, 12, 18-19, 31. See also Equipment, weight of.

ponton units: 51, 52

relation to engineer mission: 1, 14, 16, 17, 26, 27, 36-37, 43-44, 62, 468, 574

relation to mapping: 64, 70, 72, 76-77, 80, 441

Mobilization plans: 10, 11, 94, 95, 104, 109, 241, 573, 575. See also Procurement of supplies, planning.

Mobilization Training Programs: 112, 125, 263, 272-73, 308, 326, 327, 329

Model-making teams: 455-56

Molnar, Lt. Col. Theodore T.: 175, 183, 184, 195, 196, 197, 421, 499

Monroe, La., airport: 129

Montgomery Ward: 207

Monthly Progress Reports: 563

Moore, Maj. Gen. Richard C.: 13

Morale: 3, 4, 5, 220, 236, 281, 303, 304, 368-69, 377-78. See also Racial and national tensions.

Motorized battalions: 222

Mountain battalions: 222

Mountain Training Center: 464

Mountain warfare equipment: 464

Mountbatten, Vice-Admiral Lord Louis: 369, 469

Mullins, Col. Clayton E.: 42, 49, 486, 487, 489, 490, 493

Mullins, Howard H.: 483, 493

Munitions Assignments Board: 183, 184, 186, 401, 402, 403

Munitions Assignments Committee (Ground): 184, 186, 188, 196, 197, 499

Diesel Engine Sub-Committee: 516-17, 519

Engineer Subcommittee: 184, 188, 501

Subcommittee on Tractors: 186, 188

Munitions Assignments Committee (Navy) : 401

Munitions Program, June 1940: 94, 96, 100, 104

Murwin, William J.: 471, 474

–N–

Naples: 391

National Defense Advisory Commission: 96, 102

National Defense Research Committee: 27, 54, 375, 470, 478, 479, 482

National Guard: 18, 93, 94, 99, 109, 112-13, 123.

–O–

Obstacle courses: 163, 167, 255, 256

Obstacles: 14, 21, 53, 172, 468. See also Beach obstacle clearance; Demolitions; Mine detectors; Mine field clearance; Tank dozer; Underwater obstacles.

Office of the Chief of Engineers. See also specific administrative units.

administrative organization: 4-5, 7-8, 132, 134-35, 216-17, 219

on control of aviation units: 235

equipment development: 47, 48, 467, 487, 497

mapping: 75

personnel

heavy shop companies: 287

Negro: 257, 309, 310

officers commissioned from civil life: 272

recruitment by voluntary enlistment: 349

petroleum distribution: 424-25, 427, 429, 431, 432

port repair ships: 400

relations with AGF Engineer Section: 338

supplies

Class IV: 502-03, 504, 505, 506, 507

stock control: 537, 555

training

centers: 277, 278, 303, 304

officers: 109-10

programs: 250-51, 259, 293, 296, 329, 397, 579

specialist: 247, 287, 288

troop organization

forestry companies: 142

group system: 346, 354

water supply units: 226

Office of Production Management: 102, 103, 179

Office Service Branch, OCE: 132

Office of Strategic Services: 457

Officer Candidate School: 124, 146, 148-55, 158, 160, 242, 246

Commandant. See Crawford, Brig. Gen. Roscoe C.

Officer Candidate School graduates: 122

AGF units: 350

amphibian brigades: 365, 366

from other arms and services: 159

quality of: 156, 157, 160, 295, 540, 577

specialist courses for: 300

Officer candidates: 243, 244, 262, 282

Officer Procurement Service: 156-57

Officers. See also Instructors and administrative staffs; Military observers; U. S. Military Academy.

classification: 123, 124

commands for colonels: 139, 225

commissioned from civil life: 3, 109, 122, 146, 147, 148, 155-58, 159, 270, 272, 273, 281-82, 295, 365, 394, 400, 406, 411-12, 577

for equipment development: 28-29, 81-82, 464, 465, 466

National Guard: 8, 112, 113, 123, 124, 148, 158 159 272

for Negro units: 119, 308, 311-12

Regular Army: 3, 5, 8, 9, 109, 111-12, 113, 114, 115, 120, 121, 123, 124, 147, 148, 158, 159, 174, 272, 575

Reserve: 8, 97, 111, 112, 113-15, 119, 120, 121, 122-23, 124, 146, 147, 148, 155, 158, 159, 174, 177, 272, 365, 575

for supply activities: 97, 177, 536, 540, 563, 564, 565, 566, 568, 576

supply and demand: 109, 111, 113-14, 115, 120-24, 146-48, 174, 341, 575

training and experience in peacetime: 3, 5, 7-8, 109-10, 111, 113-14, 575, 580

training and experience in wartime: 21, 112, 114-15, 120, 124, 158-60, 273, 282. See also Officer Candidate School.

transfers to troop duty: 9, 111-12, 120-23, 146-48

Officers Reserve Corps: 109, 113, 120

Ohio River Division: 509, 521, 522

Oil companies: 430

Okinawa: 372, 390

Oliver, Maj. Gen. Lunsford E.: 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 137-38, 490n

OMAHA beach: 459, 481-82

Operations and Training (Section) Branch, OCE; 132, 217. See also Godfrey, Brig. Gen. Stuart C.; Gorlinski, Col. Joseph S.; War Plans Division, OCE.

equipment development: 27, 42, 43

research courses: 22

staff and functions: 7, 12-13

supplies: 89, 104, 198, 201, 207-08, 209, 500-501, 503, 505

training: 114, 119, 126, 159, 162, 244, 246, 252, 255, 413

troop organization: 36, 225, 393, 434, 567

Ordnance Department: 207, 316, 318, 563

armor for construction machinery: 475-76

Engineer Board representative: 29

mines and mine field clearance: 53, 469-70, 473, 476, 480

officer candidates: 151

petroleum distribution: 425

procurement: 96, 134, 182, 186, 191, 216, 516, 547n, 558

replacement and distribution factors: 195

specialists required: 117, 117n strength: 134

tank dozer: 470, 471

tanks: 37, 39, 40-41, 483, 491, 492, 496

training of engineer specialists: 288

Ordnance Department Technical Committee: 490-91, 492

Ordnance units: 365

Organization. See specific administrative units and specific troop units; Procurement of supplies, administrative organization; Tables of organization.

Organization Todt: 20

Oxford University: 110

–P–

Pacific Division: 509, 521, 522

Pacific theaters of operations. See also Central Pacific theater of operations; Philippines campaigns; South Pacific theater of operations; Southwest Pacific theater of operations.

armored construction machinery: 471, 476

Class IV supplies: 504-05

effect on training: 160, 335

engineer activities in: 1

maps and strategic intelligence: 438, 459, 461-63

mines and other obstacles: 468, 479

port reconstruction: 399, 407, 412, 413, 415-16

water supply equipment: 551

Park battalion: 35, 227

Parts supply companies: 227-28, 298, 561, 564, 571

Patterson, Robert P.: 88, 93, 99, 203, 220, 272, 279

Patton, Lt. Gen. George S., Jr.: 436

Paul, Maj. Gen. Willard S.: 341-42, 344, 345

Paules, Col. Earl G.: 295

Perkins, Charles G.: 175

Personnel, civilian: 9, 147

depots: 533, 536, 540-41, 564, 568

equipment development: 28-29, 81-82, 464, 465, 466

maintenance: 209, 561

mapping: 66, 442

procurement: 97, 134, 178, 508, 509, 512

stock control: 537, 540

strategic intelligence: 439-40

Supply Division, OCE: 175

unit training centers: 280, 287, 288

Personnel, military. See also Enlisted men; Officers.

economies in: 12, 14, 15, 16, 22-23, 223-27, 228, 232, 236, 237, 456

Petroleum distribution

methods: 417, 424

personnel and training for: 278, 293, 295, 429-34

pipeline systems: 417

development and tests: 418-24, 425, 426-29, 575

procurement: 423, 427

in theaters of operations: 434, 436

Petroleum distribution companies: 229, 406. See also Petroleum distribution, personnel and training for.

control of: 222

number of, June 1945: 238

organization, equipment, and functions: 417, 427, 431

training locale: 278

Petroleum distribution detachments: 427, 431. See also Petroleum distribution, personnel and training for.

Philadelphia District

dredge crews: 412, 413, 414

port repair ships and crews: 401, 404, 405, 407, 410

procurement: 177, 178, 509

Philippine Islands: 127, 143

Philippines campaigns

armored construction machinery: 476

maps and strategic intelligence: 459-61

supplies: 105

Photographic squadrons. See Mapping, aerial photography, personnel and aircraft for.

Physical Profile System: 351n

Pipeline systems. See Petroleum distribution, pipeline systems.

Pittsburgh District: 177, 178, 509

Pneumatic floats: 42, 48, 49, 201, 484, 486, 549, 575. See also Bridges, steel treadway.

Polifka, Col. Karl L.: 453

Polish campaign: 18, 20

Pooling. See Group system of organization.

Port construction and repair groups. See Port reconstruction, port construction and repair groups.

Port reconstruction

division of responsibility between Army and Navy: 391, 392, 401-02, 416

dredges and crews: 392, 411-16

port construction and repair groups: 229, 231, 234, 236, 406

control of: 222

number of, June 1945: 238

organization, equipment, and functions: 391-92, 393-94, 400, 416

personnel and training: 295, 394-99

port repair ships and crews: 391, 392, 399-411, 416

in theaters of operations: 391, 398-99, 415-16

Port repair ships. See Port reconstruction, port repair ships and crews.

Ports of embarkation: 530, 532n

Powers, Col. William F.: 469

Prairie dog: 477-78

Preference ratings. See Priorities.

Prentiss, Col. Louis W.: 267

President’s Emergency Fund: 29

Priorities: 96, 99, 102-03, 104, 187, 189-90, 191, 511

Prisoners of war: 307, 313

Procurement districts. See District offices, procurement activities.

Procurement (Branch) Division, OCE: 175, 217

contracting: 93, 97-98, 99, 100, 102, 107, 177, 509

engine shortage: 519-20, 549

equipment standardization: 208

organization and functions: 97, 178, 509, 510, 521, 553

overprocurement: 544, 545

procurement program, 1943: 518-19

Production Requirements Plan: 199

spare parts: 212, 213, 559-60, 569

Supply Control System: 559

Procurement of supplies: 88. See also Spare parts.

administrative organization: 7, 88, 97, 100, 132, 134, 135, 177-78, 221, 507-10, 521-22, 553-54, 576

contracts

advertised versus negotiated: 92-93, 96, 97-98, 100, 176, 179

cancellations and cutbacks: 518, 544-45, 546, 559

commodity versus territorial awards: 177-78, 510, 521, 522, 553

distribution of: 96, 98-99

deliveries: 216, 556-57. See also Engines and other components; Facilities, industrial; Materials; Priorities.

1940: 100

1941: 104, 107, 108

1942: 134, 180, 192, 201, 203-04, 206

1943: 517-18, 522-23, 525, 557

1944: 553, 557, 573

educational orders: 91

planning: 88-89, 91, 97, 177

policies and procedures: 96, 176-77, 178-79

programs. See also Army Supply Program.

before Pearl Harbor: 92, 93-96, 97-98, 99, 100

1945: 559

summary and evaluation: 575-76

Production Requirements Plan: 189, 190, 199, 507, 511

Production scheduling: 89, 514

Production urgency list: 547

Protective Mobilization Plan: 93-94

Provisional Engineer Organization Center. See Engineer Unit Training Centers, Camp Claiborne, La.

Provost Marshal General’s Office: 157

Public works: 5, 30

Puerto Rico, V. I.: 5, 59, 61

Pumps: 420, 421, 422, 426, 430

–Q–

Quartermaster Corps

depot administration: 532, 563

enlisted men: 231

military construction program: 9, 62, 121, 122, 123, 132, 174

officers: 121, 122, 124, 147

operation of utilities plants: 229

petroleum distribution: 417-20, 422, 424, 425

procurement of supplies: 134, 135, 216, 508, 558

specialists required: 117, 117n strength: 134-35

training of engineer specialists: 242-43, 244

Quartermaster Corps units: 365, 391

56th Quartermaster Regiment: 420

Quartermaster General, The. See Quartermaster Corps.

Quebec Conference, August 1943: 502

–R–

R. G. LeTourneau, Inc.: 98, 245, 246, 471, 473, 474

Racial and national tensions: 310-13

Radar: 91, 203

Radio Corporation of America: 478

Radio-Television Institute: 244

Rafts and ferries: 42, 44, 47, 49, 141, 486, 494

Railroad operation: 3

Railway Section, OCE: 7

Railway units: 279

RAINBOW 4: 95, 104

Raymond: 413, 415

Reception centers: 117, 161, 162, 272, 273, 314

Reconnaissance: 66, 71, 72, 171

Reconnaissance squadrons: 14

Recruitment by voluntary enlistment. See Specialists, recruitment by voluntary enlistment.

Redistribution and Salvage Branch, OCE: 547

Regional Control Offices: 555

Regional Field Maintenance Offices: 321

Regular Army: 93, 99, 109, 112, 113

administrative organization: 4, 10, 125

engineer units in: 11, 238, 239

modernization: 12, 573

strength: 15, 18, 92, 94, 498. See also Troop basis.

Regular Army Officers. See Officers, Regular Army.

Reliance Steel Products Co.: 62

Remagen bridge: 1, 496

Renegotiation Act of April 1942: 176

Renshaw, Col. Clarence: 410, 414

Replacement factors. See Requirements for supplies, replacement factors.

Replacement training. See also Engineer Replacement Training Centers; Equipment, for training; Replacements for aviation units.

objectives: 160-61, 256

realism in: 254-56

summary and evaluation: 174, 268-69

8-week program: 162, 164, 165, 166, 167, 273

12-week program

effect of specialist training and other withdrawals on: 243, 251-54

1941: 161

1942: 166, 169-74

17-week program: 259-60, 261-66, 268, 296

Replacements for aviation units: 328

Republic Steel Corp.: 469

Requirements for supplies: 7, 135. See also Army Supply Program; Procurement of supplies, programs; Spare parts; Supply Control System.

Class II supplies: 94, 175

Class IV supplies: 89, 175, 176, 179, 180, 193, 198-99, 500-507, 512-13, 514, 545, 576

distribution factors: 179, 180, 193-95

replacement factors: 94, 179, 180, 193-94, 194n, 195, 498, 500, 523

Requirements and Stock Control Branch, OCE: 554, 555

Requirements, Storage and Issue Branch, OCE: 175, 555n, 561. See also Dawson, Col. Miles M.

Class IV supplies: 501

distribution of supplies: 532, 533, 538

equipment standardization: 208, 209

international aid: 100, 195, 198

requirements: 94

stock control: 537, 540, 543, 544

Research courses: 21-22, 42, 52, 53, 126, 357-58, 361, 363

Reserve officers: See Officers, Reserve.

Reserve Officers Training Corps: 109, 113-14, 120, 122, 123-24, 146, 153, 158

Reybold, Lt. Gen. Eugene: 1n, 13, 236

and ASF: 136, 220

biographical sketch: 134

equipment development: 466, 491-92

mapping organization: 451

Negro personnel: 119, 119n

officer assignments: 148

supplies

administrative organization for procurement of: 510, 554

Class IV: 501

construction machinery: 180

engines: 519, 520

international aid: 187

procurement program, 1941: 108

spare parts: 214, 567

troop organization and training construction units: 232, 233

general service regiments: 144, 145

group system: 225

unit training centers: 279, 304, 305

visits to theaters of operations: 502

Rhine River crossing: 1, 496

Rhodes scholarships: 110

Richie, Col. William L.: 382

Richmond, Va.: 319, 320, 334

Richmond ASF Depot: 543

Rivers and harbors. See Civil works.

Robins, Maj. Gen. Thomas M.: 8, 9, 132, 147, 217, 236-37, 409, 452-53

Rockefeller Foundation: 457, 462

Rockets and rocket launchers: 475, 480, 481

Rodwell, Lt. Col. Charles R., Jr.: 537, 539, 540, 544, 554

Roebling, Donald: 356

Rogers Brothers Corp.: 103

Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin: 468

Roosevelt, Franklin D.: 182, 469

Rosenberg, Col. Lyle: 554

Ross, Brig. Gen. Lewis T.: 501

Rossell: 411

Rote, Lt. Col. George A.: 54, 477, 478

ROUNDUP: 400

Rumaggi, Lt. Col. Louis J.: 68, 78, 79

Russia: 499, 500

–S–

Saint-Gaudens, Col. Homer: 81,85, 86

St. Louis District: 509

Samuel Gompers Trade School: 405

San Antonio ASF Depot: 532, 538, 539

San Francisco ASF Depot: 532

San Francisco District: 177, 509

Savannah ASF Depot: 397

Schenectady ASF Depot: 532, 539

Schley, Maj. Gen. Julian L.: 7, 8, 134

appropriation bills testimony: 9

biographical sketch: 4

engineer combat mission: 20-21

landing mat: 59

military construction program: 121

personnel

enlisted men: 117

National Guard: 113

officers: 114, 122, 123

supply

Class IV stocks: 105

procurement program: 88, 100

troop organization: 13, 15-16, 23-24

Schull, Col. Herman W., Jr.: 305, 420

Schultz, Lt. Col. William F., Jr.: 385

Schulz, Brig. Gen. John W. N.: 271-72, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278-79, 280, 292, 466

Seabees: 232, 234, 236, 237, 329

Seacoast defenses: 7, 9n, 99

Searchlights: 88, 91, 96, 98, 99, 100, 108, 203, 204, 517, 518

Sears, Roebuck & Co.: 207

Second Air Force: 319, 320

Second Army: 128, 129, 130

Second Army Engineer: 131

Secretary of War: 4. See also Stimson, Henry L.

Seeman, Col. Lyle E.: 84

Selective Service Act: 18, 23, 116, 158

Separate battalions: 11, 15

control of: 222

conversion to construction battalions: 234, 235-36

conversion to general service regiments: 138, 139, 140, 225, 231

elimination from combat echelon: 225-26

equipment: 33, 34

Negroes in: 118, 119, 139

number of, June 1945: 238

training: 126, 278

Service Commands: 219, 266, 268, 349, 388, 509

Fourth: 311

Sixth: 297, 303, 304, 305

Seventh: 266

Eighth: 280, 538

Service schools: 242-43, 244, 247, 251, 252, 253, 287, 288, 327, 328, 367, 406

Service units, increase in: 142-45, 161, 238, 293, 573

Services of Supply. See Army Service Forces.

Seybold, Col. John S.: 175, 197, 510

Sharonville Engineer Depot: 536, 543

Shell Oil Company, Inc.: 418, 420-23, 426

Shenandoah National Park: 265, 424, 425

Sherrill, Col. Fred G.: 546, 559, 569

Shipping shortage: 144, 194, 215, 223, 507

Shop companies: 11, 26, 35, 36, 115

Shovels and cranes. See also Construction machinery.

procurement and allocation: 190, 192, 547

selection: 33

Sicilian landings: 455-56

Siegfried Line: 459

Signal Corps

instructors for Engineer Amphibian Command: 368

mine detectors: 54, 479

officers and officer candidates: 124, 151

procurement: 508

specialists required: 117, 117n

training of engineer specialists: 242, 243, 244, 406

Silkman, Col. John M.: 95, 104

Slade, Maj. Ernest A.: 424, 428, 429, 430

Smith, Col. C. Rodney: 35-36, 176, 206, 208, 209, 212, 213, 214, 227, 559-60, 561, 563, 564-65, 566, 569, 570

Smith, Sid S.: 420-23, 425, 430

Smyser, Col. Rudolph E., Jr.: 25, 56, 60

Snake. See Mine field clearance, snake.

Snow, Col. Beverly C.: 196-97

Snyder, Congressman J. Buell: 136

Society of American Military Engineers: 3, 19, 115

Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc.: 425

Soil Conservation Service: 439

Somervell, Gen. Brehon B.: 121, 235, 303, 304, 491, 519, 520

amphibious operations and training: 369, 371, 376, 377, 380, 381

ASF administrative organization: 135, 136, 219-20, 221

characterization of Corps of Engineers: 3-4

equipment development: 465-66, 471

personnel

dredge crews: 412

petroleum distribution units: 433

supplies

administrative organization for procurement: 132

Army Supply Program: 193

international aid: 195, 197, 499

relationship between strategy and logistics: 501

spare parts: 214

visits to theaters of operations: 502

Soong, Dr. T. V.: 422

South Atlantic Division: 148, 509, 521, 522

South Pacific theater of operations: 571

Southwest Pacific theater of operations amphibian brigades: 390. See also Amphibious training, effect of Southwest Pacific theater of operations requirements.

aviation units: 234

combat battalions, nondivisional: 353-54

comments on officers: 160

forestry companies: 291

maintenance of equipment: 571, 572

map supply: 448, 449

monthly reports: 502

petroleum distribution units: 434

supplies: 214, 506, 507, 543, 572

training reports: 249

Southwestern Division: 509, 521, 522

Spare parts: 197, 207, 208, 209, 211, 211n, 212-14, 513, 533, 556, 559-60, 560n, 561-70, 571, 572. See also Columbus ASF Depot; Depot companies; Maintenance companies; Parts supply companies.

Spare Parts Control Office: 569

Sparkman & Stephens: 495

Special brigades. See Amphibian brigades.

Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program: 568

Special service regiments: 155, 232, 235-36

control of: 222

fillers: 247, 272, 273-74

number of, June 1945: 238

officers: 272, 273, 281-82, 295

organization and functions: 144, 270

training: 277. See also Unit training, ASF, 6-week program; Unit training, ASF, 13-week program.

Special units: 11, 26, 125, 140-42

Specialists

Negro: 138, 237, 244, 251, 265, 295-96, 309-10, 311

quantity and type required: 116-17, 117n, 241

recruitment by voluntary enlistment: 293, 294-96, 575, 577

AAF units: 328-29, 334, 577

AGF units: 295, 349-50, 577

amphibian brigades: 365

competition with Navy: 232, 328-29

construction units for Middle East and United Kingdom: 270, 272, 273-74

dredge crews: 411-12

general and special service regiments: 270, 272, 273-74, 282, 294-96

numbers sent to Camp Ellis: 295, 298

petroleum distribution units: 295, 429, 430

port construction and repair groups: 295, 394-95, 399

port repair ship crews: 400, 403, 405, 406

training: 241-42, 259, 261-62

AAF units: 244, 245-46, 318, 325, 327-28

AGF units: 245, 246, 338-39, 352, 353

amphibian brigades: 367-68, 373

at Engineer Replacement Training Centers: 161, 242, 243-44, 245, 246, 247-54, 261-62, 264-65, 269, 349

at Engineer School: 111, 116, 124, 241, 242, 243, 244-46, 262, 263

heavy shop companies: 287-88

petroleum distribution units: 430, 434

port construction and repair groups: 396, 398

port repair ship crews: 402, 405-06, 407

quotas for AGF: 351

at unit training centers: 275, 283-84, 296, 300, 308

Specification serial number: 116

Sperry Gyroscope Co.: 91, 98, 203

Squadron, cavalry division: 11, 33, 34, 138, 139

Square division: 10, 15, 23

Standard Components of Standard Makes and Models: 526

Standard Nomenclature List: 539-40

Stander, Capt. Richard R.: 490

Stanley, Col. Thomas H.: 44, 45-47, 48, 49, 484, 490n

Startzman, Lt. Col. Paul H.: 568, 569

Stimson, Henry L.: 220, 221

Stock control: 532-33, 537-38, 539-40, 541, 543-46, 554-56, 557-58, 564, 566, 569, 572

Stock Control, Director of. See Rodwell, Lt. Col. Charles R., Jr.

Stock levels. See Stock control.

Storage Branch, OCE: 554

Storage and Issue Branch, OCE. See Requirements, Storage and Issue Branch, OCE.

Storage of supplies. See Depots.

Strategic Engineering Studies: 440-41

Strategic intelligence: 438-41. See also specific theaters of operations; Intelligence Division, OCE, and strategic intelligence; Theaters of operations.

Strategy effect on training programs: 579

effect on troop basis: 143, 144, 223

relation to Class IV supplies: 500-501, 502-03, 505, 506

role of amphibious operations in: 355, 358, 359

Stratemeyer, Lt. Gen. George E.: 328

Strength: 575

AGF component: 342, 345, 346

deployment of: 530

distribution of: 238-39, 351

National Guard component: 112

Negro component: 118, 119

Regular Army component: 109

World War I: 2

1939–41: 9, 16, 115-16

1941–42: 134

1942: 146, 175

1943: 216

1945: 216

Sturdevant, Maj. Gen. Clarence L.: 132, 217, 488

beach obstacle clearance: 475

officers and officer candidates: 146, 150, 151, 152

training

amphibious: 361, 363, 364, 369-70, 377, 379, 387

specialists: 242, 243

unit training centers: 274, 278, 304

troop organization

combat battalions, divisional: 137

construction units: 237

general units: 139, 143

group system: 231-32, 346

supply and maintenance units: 227, 570, 571

topographic units: 456

Styer, Lt. Gen. Wilhelm D.: 220, 234-35

Sullivan, Col. John S.: 304

Supplies. See also Base depot companies; Base equipment companies; Depot companies; Depot group headquarters and headquarters companies; Equipment; Equipment companies; Light equipment companies.

Class II. See Class II supplies.

Class IV. See Class IV supplies, distribution of: 7, 104-05, 135, 505, 506-07, 530, 532, 538-39. See also Depots, maintenance of. See Maintenance of equipment.

nomenclature and numbers: 207, 532-33, 539-40, 557-58

spare parts: 562, 563, 566-67, 569

procurement of. See Procurement of supplies.

requirements for. See Requirements for supplies.

summary and evaluation: 573, 575-76

surpluses of: 559, 571-72

in theaters of operations: 214-15, 572

Supply catalogs. See Supplies, nomenclature and numbers.

Supply Control System: 545-46, 554, 557-59, 569

Supply (Section) Division, OCE: 217, 515, 540, 555n. See also Fowler, Brig. Gen. Raymond F.; Silkman, Col. John M.

administration and functions: 7, 132, 134, 175

bridging: 27, 494

Class IV supplies: 176, 180, 198, 500, 501-02, 505, 506, 507, 576

construction machinery: 182, 186, 210, 321, 518, 523, 524

Controlled Materials Plan: 512, 513-14

equipment maintenance and spare parts: 211, 566, 567, 569, 570-71

equipment standardization: 207, 208-09

international aid: 183, 184, 188, 195-96, 197, 198, 499

priorities: 103

procurement

administrative organization: 177, 178, 509

assistance to industry: 192

planning: 89, 91

policies and procedures: 92, 93

Production Requirements Plan: 199

replacement and distribution factors: 194-95, 523

task force supplies: 104-05

Surgeon General, The: 408

Surgeon General’s Office: 157

Survey liaison teams: 456

Sverdrup, Maj. Gen. Leif J.: 44, 45

Sverdrup and Parcel: 39, 51

–T–

Table of Organization 5-500: 229-30, 233, 454-55, 456

Tables of basic allowances: 7, 29, 31, 33, 48-49, 179, 180, 193

Tables of organization: 7, 223

airborne battalion: 145n amphibian brigade: 365, 387

armored battalion: 24, 138

aviation battalion: 140

aviation regiment: 18, 25, 140

combat battalion, divisional: 23

combat regiment, corps: 24, 139

construction battalion: 236

depot group headquarters and headquarters company: 227

general service regiment: 24, 139

heavy ponton battalion: 141 ,226

light ponton company: 141, 226

maintenance company: 206, 228, 229

mechanized troop: 17

parts supply company: 227

petroleum distribution units: 427

port construction and repair group: 393

shop company: 35

topographic battalion, army: 79

utilities detachment: 230

water supply battalion: 141-42

Talley, Col. Benjamin B.: 65-66, 68

Tank-Automotive Center: 492

Tank dozer: 470-71, 473-75, 481-82, 497

Tanks

for training: 254, 255

weight and width of: 37-38, 40-41, 44, 46, 49-50, 483, 486, 490-92, 496, 574

Task forces: 100, 104-06, 116, 176, 179, 180

Technical services. See also specific services.

joint training at Camp Ellis: 296-97, 302-03

proposed abolition: 219-20

Tehran Conference: 459

Tennessee Valley Authority: 443, 444, 456, 457, 468

Terrain models: 455-56

Theaters of operations. See also specific theaters and campaigns.

aviation battalions: 323

diversion of engineer units from specialized functions: 238, 331, 353-54, 578

effect on equipment development: 467, 468

engineer activities in: 1, 238-39

mapping: 445-46, 453-54

petroleum distribution: 434

port reconstruction: 391, 399

Strategic Engineering Studies: 440-41

supplies: 555-56

Class IV: 501-07

construction machinery: 523-24, 549

nonstandard equipment: 562

spare parts: 561, 567, 568, 570

Third Army: 128, 129, 130, 302, 306

Thomas, Col. William N., Jr.: 57-58, 60

Thompson, Brig. Gen. Paul W.: 19-20, 130-31, 488-89, 490, 492

Time: 129

Todd, Brig. Gen. Walter E.: 380, 382

Tompkins, Maj. Gen. William F.: 130

Topographic units: 26

battalions: 447, 452

battalions, army

control of: 222

organization, equipment, and functions: 66, 73, 75, 76, 78-79, 456

battalions, base (GHQ): 66n, 69, 442

control of: 222

organization, equipment, and functions: 66, 76, 78, 79, 456

companies, corps: 16, 115

control of: 222

equipment and functions: 68, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78

functions: 11

in T/O 5-500: 230, 454-55

use of trimetrogon photography: 448

Tractors: 186, 190-92, 199, 201, 547, 547n. See also Bulldozers; Construction machinery.

Trade schools: 36, 116, 241, 242, 243, 244, 247, 251, 252, 253, 262, 263, 286, 287-88. See also Caterpillar Tractor Co.; Evinrude Motor Co.; Franklin Technical Institute of Boston; Higgins Industries, Inc.; Metropolitan Technical School of New York; R. G. LeTourneau, Inc.; Radio-Television Institute; Samuel Gompers Trade School.

Training: 7, 8. See also Basic training; Engineer School, training, curriculum, faculty and output; Officer Candidate School; Replacement training; Specialists, training; Unit training; and under Officers.

combat versus technical: 160, 302, 339

general versus specialized: 114, 259, 293, 578, 579

realism in: 285, 299, 300-302, 305, 329-30, 432

requirements and output: 242, 252-53

summary and evaluation: 573, 574, 578-79

Training aids: 172, 278

Training literature: 7, 8, 114

Transportation Corps: 216, 219, 414, 501, 504

enlisted men: 231

landing craft: 382, 383

port repair ships and crews: 400, 401, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407-09

railroad operation: 3, 279

specialists required: 117n, 241

Strategic Engineering Studies: 440

Treadway bridge companies: 222. See also Bridge company, armored battalion.

Treasury Department: 184, 186

Treiber, Capt. Kenneth L.: 424, 426, 429, 430

Triangular division: 12, 15, 23

TRIDENT conference: 502

Trimetrogon mount: 446-54, 460, 463

Troop basis: 179, 221, 337

1942: 142, 144, 148, 149, 180

1943: 333, 393, 570, 571

1944: 456, 570, 571

Troop units

distribution: 4, 238-39

division of control among commands: 144, 145, 221-23, 227-28, 229, 232, 234-36, 314, 316-17, 343-44, 570, 571, 578

organization: 573, 577-78. See also Cellular organization; Group system of organization; Tables of organization; and under specific types of units.

Troops Division, OCE: 132, 242, 466, 490. See also Sturdevant, Maj. Gen. Clarence L.

Trudeau, Brig. Gen. Arthur G.: 305n, 361, 362, 382n

amphibious operations and training: 363, 368—69, 373, 379, 380-85

as Deputy Director of Training, ASF: 304, 361

port construction and repair group: 416

–U–

Under Secretary of War. See also Patterson, Robert P.

and dredges: 411

functions: 135, 136

Under Secretary of War, Office of the Director of Production. See Knudsen, Lt. Gen. William S.

procurement procedures: 176-77

Underwater obstacles: 475n

Union Army Engineer Battalion: 2

Unit training: 164. See also Amphibious training; Field exercises; Forestry companies; Heavy shop companies, personnel and training; Maneuvers; Petroleum distribution, personnel and training for; Port reconstruction.

AAF: 270, 315-16, 322-24

center system: 320, 325-29, 334. See also Engineer Aviation Unit Training Centers.

disruptions due to personnel cuts and inactivations: 331-33

disruptions due to theater demands: 335-36

programs and projects: 329-30, 335

regimental system: 319-20, 324

AGF: 270

combat battalions, divisional: 338-39

nondivisional units: 339, 340, 341, 343-46

12-week program: 349

1944 programs: 352-53

ASF: 270

6-week program: 272-77

13-week program: 280-81, 283, 284-86

13-week revised and 13-week advanced program: 293-94

17-week program: 296

ASF, AGF, and AAF methods compared: 338, 354, 579

construction projects at camps and air bases: 111, 112, 126-27, 128, 275-76, 298-99, 303, 304, 307, 322, 323-24

before Pearl Harbor: 111, 112, 125-28

summary and evaluation: 131, 313, 354, 579

Unit training centers: 277, 344, 579. See also Engineer Unit Training Centers.

United Kingdom. See Great Britain.

United States Steel Corp.: 58

University of Chicago: 439

University of Kentucky: 244, 246, 263

Upper Mississippi Valley Division: 509, 521, 522

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey: 368, 427, 443, 460, 461

U.S. Forest Service: 443, 444, 450

U.S. Geological Survey: 65, 66, 439, 440, 443, 446, 448, 450, 456, 457

U.S. Maritime Commission: 400, 511

U.S. Military Academy: 2, 3, 109, 110, 120, 121, 146, 158, 159, 304

U.S. Naval Amphibious Training Base: 464

U.S. Power Squadron: 365

USSR: 499, 500

Utah ASF Depot: 537, 543, 560n, 566

UTAH beach: 459

Utilities detachments: 156, 229-30, 307

–V–

Van Noy: 403, 407, 408, 409-10

Vehicles weight and width of: 31, 494, 495. See also Tanks, weight and width of.

Victaulic Company of America: 418, 425

Victaulic couplings: 418, 422, 425, 428

Virginia State College for Negroes: 244, 263

Vocational Schools. See Trade schools.

Vogler, Capt. John R.: 439, 440, 462

–W–

W. and L. E. Gurley Co.: 98, 201, 203

Wacs: 267

Walsh, Col. James E.: 475

War Department. See also General Staff.

amphibious operations, organization, and training: 355, 360, 363, 364, 365, 372, 373, 376, 379, 382, 385

Army expansion before Pearl Harbor: 111

build-up in Britain: 144

mapping, 443, 444, 448, 451, 452, 453, 462

mine warfare: 347

mobilization plans: 10, 93, 109

National Guard: 113

personnel policies

AAF: 327, 331, 332

AGF: 340, 341, 343, 351

assignment of fillers: 161

Negroes: 118, 119, 310

officer candidates: 150, 151, 152

officer classification: 123

officers commissioned from civil life: 156, 157, 158

recruitment by voluntary enlistment: 270, 329, 350, 430

Reserve officers: 120, 122-23, 124

rotation: 267, 414-15

petroleum distribution: 419, 421, 425

redistribution of manpower and equipment: 223

reorganization of: 135-36, 574

supplies

Class IV: 504, 506

cuts in basic allowances: 193

international aid: 183, 197, 198

preshipping equipment: 353

procurement of supplies before Pearl Harbor: 92, 94, 100, 106

procurement of tractors: 547n spare parts: 561

for training: 105

training: 166

AGF nondivisional units: 340, 343, 345

facilities: 243, 287

Negro units: 308

programs: 162, 296, 352, 579

realism in: 330

staffs: 300

troop organization

airborne aviation units: 315, 316

airborne battalions: 145n armored units: 17, 24

aviation units: 18

cellular system: 230

classification and control of engineer units: 221-23, 316-17

combat battalions, divisional: 15, 16, 23

combat and general service regiments: 139

construction units: 238

corps units: 15, 16, 24

engineer strength: 115

group system: 225, 231

maintenance units: 570

parts supply company: 228

port construction and repair: 392, 393, 416

War Department Budget Office: 36

War Department Map Collection: 441, 444

War Plans Division, OCE: 217, 496

War Production Board: 179, 196, 551, 576

Army Supply Program: 498

construction machinery: 182, 186, 190, 191, 201, 208, 210, 211, 512, 513, 514, 547

engines and other components: 511, 514, 515, 516, 517

materials allocation systems: 189, 199, 500, 507, 511-12, 513, 514

materials conservation: 201, 203

War Shipping Administration: 402, 403

Ward, Maj. Gen. Orlando: 70, 72

Washington Conference of 1921–22: 355

Water supply battalions: 26, 293

control of: 222

organization, equipment, and functions: 11, 141-42, 225-27, 230

Water supply companies: 226, 227, 230

Water supply equipment

development of: 141, 467

procurement of: 93, 99, 108, 204, 551, 553

Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg Miss.: 467

Waukesha Motor Co.: 516, 519

Weeks, General Sir Ronald: 499

Weible, Maj. Gen. Walter L.: 296-97

Weidner, George: 475

West Point. See U. S. Military Academy.

West Wall: 19

Westover Field, Mass.: 127, 316, 319, 324, 325, 329, 334

Whiteley, Brigadier J. F. M.: 104

Wilson, Vice Admiral Russell: 376

Withers, Col. George K.: 510

Wood, Brig. Gen. John E.: 118, 119

Wood, Maj. Gen. John S.: 488

Wood, Maj. Gen. Walter A., Jr.: 13, 492

Woodbury, Col. Harry G.: 315

Workman, Maj. Richard H.: 554, 558

World War I: 2, 5, 573, 577

camouflage: 81, 82, 85

construction equipment: 29

engineer troops: 16, 117, 575, 577

influence on organization and plans: 10-11, 19, 135, 355, 391, 392

labor battalions: 118

mapping: 64, 65, 77

petroleum pipelines: 418

procurement of supplies: 88

World War II. See also Blitzkrieg.

characteristics of: 1, 1n, 143, 573

early campaigns: 18-19, 93, 94

Worsham, Brig. Gen. Ludson D.: 219, 221, 481

WPA: 439, 441-42, 443, 541

Wright, J. M.: 512, 514, 554, 555, 558

Wright Field, Ohio: 65, 68, 70, 447, 448. See also Engineer units, Detachments, Wright Field.

–X–

Xiques, Maj. Frank W.: 521-22

–Y–

York, Col. Robert E.: 17

Young, Capt. James M.: 28, 31

–Z–

Zeiss Ikon Goerzwerk: 66, 71