Index
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Aberdeen Proving Ground, 7, 169, 172, 229, 326-29, 361, 390-91, 424
AC Spark Plug Division (GMC), 180
Accepted Schedules of Production, 17, 28-31, 468
Adamson, Maj. Keith F., 352
Administrative Service, postwar proposal for, 473
Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense (NDAC), 16
Affiliated units, Ordnance regiments, 447
Air Corps, U.S. Army. See Air Forces, U.S. Army.
Air Forces, U.S. Army, 4, 6, 11, 29, 38, 44, 51, 55, 57, 79, 98, 106, 119, 143, 197, 245, 250, 348, 363, 369, 373-74, 386, 432, 448, 453
Air Technical Service Command, 51
Aircraft guns, 79-81, 90, 99, 101, 154, 156, 159, 180-81, 214
Algeria, requirements teams sent to, 50
Allegany Ordnance Plant, 200, 203, 218
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, 15, 79, 293
Allocation of plants, 15, 19, 29-31
Amatol, 120, 134
American Bantam Car Company, 270, 273, 276-79, 295
American Brass Company, 196
American Can Company, 216
American Car and Foundry Company, 225-26, 231, 241-43, 246, 249-52, 257, 302, 304
American Locomotive Company, 225-26, 230-31, 233-34, 241-42, 259, 304
American Revolution, 188, 360
American Rifleman, The, 165
American Steel Foundries, 249
American Type Founders, Inc., 73, 81, 87
Ammonia plants, location of, 109-10
Ammonium nitrate, 134
Ammonium picrate, 111-12
Ammunition, artillery
and crisis in 1944-45, 144-50
dollar value of, 106, 147
expenditures for, 148
First Phase loading plants for, 109
first prewar depots for, 366-68
GOCO plants for, 105, 107-53
heavy, 144-50
light, 146, 149
means of identification of, 423-25
medium, 146, 149
metal components for, 113-24
preparation for, 125-53
production of, 107-08, 125-53
quality of, 150-53
requirements for, 112
Second Phase plants for, 109
shortage of in ETO, 148, 469
sites for plants, 108-10
stocks on hand in 1940, 104
storage of, 364-65
tactical use of, 104
types of procured, 106, 147, 152
Ammunition, balancing production of, 140-44
Ammunition, direct shipments of, 433-35
Ammunition Division, Industrial Service, 107, 114, 117, 125, 140-44, 146, 153, 329
Ammunition Identification Code, 424
Ammunition, small arms
belts for, 213-14
contrasted with artillery ammunition, 189
cutbacks in production of, 217-21
and descriptions of manufacture, 204-05
Educational orders for, 192
Fifth Wave, 202-03
First Wave, 194-95
foreign orders for, 192
Fourth Wave, 200-202
Frankford Arsenal production of, 190-93
for Garand rifle, 165
GOCO plants for, 193-203
increase in rate of fire of, 188
inspection of, 207-11
machinery for production of, 191-92
packing of, 216-17
prewar plans for production of, 191-92
quantities produced, 188-89, 219
requirements for, 199-203, 469
reserves of, 190
Second Wave, 195-97
shortage of, 195
steel cartridge cases for, 213
suboffice for, 203-04
Third Wave, 197-98
transfer to British, 190
types of, 189, 220
Ammunition supply, 423-39
control of excess stocks 435-39
direct shipments, 433-35
distribution, 429-39
Lend-lease shipments, 430-31
lot numbers, 424
methods of reporting, 425-26
Ammunition Supply Branch (Division), Field Service, 364, 426, 433, 436, 438-39
Anhydrous ammonia, 112
Anniston Ordnance Depot, 367, 369, 376, 378-80, 382, 389-91
Antiaircraft guns, 61, 76-79, 90, 101
Antitank guns, 61, 81-85, 87-90
Aparejo, 354
Appropriations, 1-2, 24, 44, 55, 363-65
Appropriations Committee, House of Representatives, 128
Arkansas Ordnance Plant, 127
Arma steel. for machine guns, 181
Armor, body, 185-86
Armor, tank, 247-50, 330
Armored cars, 238
Armored Force, 4, 53, 227-28, 245, 261, 263
Armored Force Board, 222, 261
Armory. See Springfield Armory.
Armstrong, Brig. Gen. Donald, 240
Armstrong Cork Company, 116
Army and Navy Munitions Board (ANMB), 19, 38-39, 80, 270, 284, 433
Army Ground Forces, 62, 100-101, 143, 261, 386, 432, 436, 446, 458
Army Industrial College, 11, 30. See also Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
Army Motors, 452-53
Army Ordnance, 23, 35-; 4-66, 478
Army Ordnance Association, 11, 19, 23, 161, 466, 478
Army Regulations, and transport vehicles, 269, 284
Army Service Forces, 95, 246, 284, 407, 432, 478
and Army Supply Program, 61-64, 142
and echelon system of maintenance, 449
and excess ammunition, 437-39
and functional organization of technical services, 475
and heavy artillery, 101
and heavy artillery ammunition. 144-45
and heavy-heavy trucks, 286
and importance of stock control system, 410
influence of on Ordnance Department, 467-69
and inspection practices, 331
and instructions for terminating contracts, 348-49
and McCoy Board Report, 65
and medium tanks, 257
and Readjustment Division, 346
and reallocation of depot space, 379, 386-87
and reconditioning of tanks, 258
and requirements, 50-51, 54, 142
and small arms ammunition, 1944, 221
and spare parts supply, 306
and stock control, 415, 421, 470-71
and studies of item identification, 408
and supply control program, 416-18
and supply procedures, 401-02
and termination manual, 345
and transfer of motor vehicles to Ordnance, 282- 83, 399
and utilization of small business, 42
Army Supply Program (ASP), 54, 58-64, 91-92, 96, 100, 142-44, 171, 175, 180, 238, 240, 250, 261, 281, 287
Arnold, Gen. Henry H., 121
Arsenals, 15-16, 20, 467. See also individual arsenals by name.
and artillery production, 72-76
modernization of, 22
placement of orders with in 1940, 26-27
and relations with District offices and OCO, 31-32
after Revolutionary War, 360
and role in prewar planning, 5, 12-13
and small arms production, 160
and training of inspectors, 323-24
Artillery Division, Ordnance, 224, 226
Artillery weapons
and aircraft bombing, 102-04
compared with small arms, 154
early neglect of, 68-69
exacting nature of production of, 71-72
fire control instruments for, 72, 95-99
German, 68, 102
heavy, 68, 90, 100-103
new types of, 69, 99-100
production goals for, 83-84, 91
production preparedness for, 71-74
production techniques for, 92-95
self-propelled, 90, 100-101, 236-38
summary of production of, 101
supplies of on hand in 1940, 1, 3-4, 69-71
transfer of, to British, 70
3-inch gun, 70-71, 73, 76, 84, 87-88, 91, 100, 152, 260
4.5-inch gun, 83, 100, 152
8-inch gun, 68, 83, 89, 145, 150-52
8-inch howitzer, 70, 83, 100, 145, 150-52, 440
16-inch howitzer, proposed, 101
20-mm. aircraft gun, 79-80, 84, 87, 100, 152
37-mm. AA gun, 70, 75-76, 78, 84-86, 152
37-mm. AT gun, 70, 75, 81, 84, 88, 91, 100, 147, 152
37-mm. tank gun, 70, 81, 84, 87, 99, 152
37-mm. aircraft gun, 76, 80-81, 84, 100, 152
40-mm. AA gun, 77-78, 85-86, 91, 99, 152
57-mm. AT gun, 88, 91, 146, 152
57-mm. tank gun, 252-53
75-mm. gun, 69-70, 81-84, 88, 99, 147, 152, 226, 228, 252-53
75-mm. howitzer, 70, 73, 81-82, 84, 88, 147, 152
76-mm. gun, 88, 100, 152, 253, 261
90-mm. AA gun, 73, 75-78, 84-86, 91, 99, 152
90-mm. tank and AT gun, 88, 102, 146, 152, 261
105-mm. AA gun, 70
105-mm. howitzer, 70, 83-84, 88, 100, 146, 152, 253, 261
120-mm. AA gun, 99-100
155-mm. gun, 68, 70, 83-84, 89, 100, 146-47, 150-52, 440
155-mm. howitzer, 70-71, 83, 88, 100, 150-52
240-mm. howitzer, 68, 70, 83, 89, 100, 145, 150- 52
Ashton, Capt. J. D., 352
Assistant Secretary of War, 4-5, 9, 11, 16-17, 34, 37, 59, 193-95, 269, 271, 273, 303, 396. See also Patterson, Robert P.
Associated Press, 165
Atlanta Base Shop, 458
Atlanta Ordnance Depot, 385, 389-90, 402
Atlantic Clipper, 7
Atlas Powder Company, 32, 112
Atomic bomb, 6, 476
Attorney General, U.S., 40, 123, 342, 349
Auditing, and contract settlement, 340-44
Augusta Arsenal, 336, 362, 382, 473-74
Augusta Ordnance Depot. 353, 388, 390, 402
Aurand, Brig. Gen. Henry S., 171
Australia, requirements team sent to, 50
Auto Ordnance Corporation, 158
Autocar Company, 88, 273, 287, 292
Autofrettage. See Cold-working of gun tubes.
Automotive Council for War Production, 281, 316
Automotive parts. See Spare parts.
Automotive Production Committee of WPB, 288-89
Aviation ordnance, 51-52
Axles, 273-74
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Badger Ordnance Works, 111, 138
Bag loading, methods of, 140
Baker Board (1934), 361
Balanced Program. See Army Supply Program.
Baldwin, Hanson, 223
Baldwin Locomotive Works, 225-26, 230-31, 233- 34, 242, 256-57, 260-61, 304
Ball powder, 220
Ballistic Research Laboratory, 327
Bantam Car Company. See American Bantam Car Company.
Barkley, Senator Alben W., 372
Barlow, Lester P., 7
Barnes, Maj. Gen. Gladeon M., 40, 465, 467, 474
Barroll, Lawrence S., 303-04, 396, 398, 404
Baruch, Bernard, 146, 402
Baruch-Hancock Report, 347-48
Base shops, Ordnance, 458
Basic Nomenclature and Classification File, 358
Battalions, Ordnance, 6, 444-47
Battle of the Bulge, 418
Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, 75, 96-97
Baxter, James Phinney, 123n
Baytown Ordnance Works, 43, 110, 135, 204
Bazooka rocket launcher. 182-84
Beaverbrook, Lord, 59, 234, 237-38
Becker, Col. Ward E., 315
Bell Telephone Laboratories, 329
Bell Telephone System, 327
Belts, ammunition, 213-15
Bendix Aviation Corporation, 75, 79-80, 122, 169, 273
Bendix Carburetor Company, 314
Bendix Products Division, 273-74
Ben Hur Company, 295
Benicia Arsenal, 365, 374, 376
Benicia Ordnance Depot, 353, 362, 387-88, 438
Big business, and share of defense contracts, 40
Binoculars, 96-97
Birkigt type 404, Hispano-Suiza gun, 79
Birmingham Ordnance District, 18
Black Hills Ordnance Depot, 375-76, 378, 381-82, 387-88, 390
Blake Manufacturing Corporation, 178n
Blandy, Admiral W. H. P., 134
Bliss, E. W., Company, 192
Blue Grass Ordnance Depot, 372, 377-78, 381-82, 387, 391
Bodine, Lt. Col. Robert N., 364
Body armor, 185-86
Bofors Company, 77
Bofors 40-mm. AA gun, 77
Bombs, 2, 6, 52, 106, 119-21, 128, 143, 147, 152
Book of Standards, Ordnance Department, 358
Booth, Lt. Col. Lucian D., 352
Borg-Warner Corporation, 273-74
Boston Ordnance District, 323, 331, 346
Boston Wire Stitcher Company, 178n
Brace-Mueller-Huntley, Inc., 177
Brandt, Edgar, 89
Brass, 118-19, 196, 205, 213
Bridgeport Brass Company, 27, 118, 196
Briggs, Dr. Lyman J., 6
British Army, supply system of, 352, 355
British government, 38, 59, 62, 70, 110-11, 155-56, 158, 180, 192, 199
British Ministry of War Transport, 431
British Purchasing Commission, 98, 136, 431
British rearmament, 33
British report on spare parts, 305
British Tank Commission (1940), 227
British Tank Mission (1942), 236
British tank production, 223, 264
Brockway Motor Truck Company, 287
Brown, Lewis H., 390, 402
Browning automatic rifle (BAR), 56, 155-56, 170- 72, 178
Browning machine guns, 159, 179-81
Brown-Lipe-Chapin Division (GMC), 180
Brunton Pocket Transit, 96
Buckeye Ordnance Works, 110
Bucyrus-Erie Company, 15
Budd Wheel Company, 27, 273-74
Buffalo Arms Corporation, 159, 180, 182
Buhl, Maj. Charles M., 405-06
Buick Division (GMC), 246
Bullets, for small arms ammunition, 205-07
Bulova Watch Company, 99
Bunker Hill, 151
Bureau of the Budget, U.S., 112, 218, 255-57, 409
Bureau of Standards, 6
Burgan, Wilfred G., 318-19
Burns, Maj. Gen. James H., 12, 33-34, 465
Burroughs, Lt. Richard T., Jr., 426-27
Bush, E. J., 289-90
Bush, Vannevar, 124
“Butterflies” (bombs), 119
Byron Jackson Company, 73
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Cactus Ordnance Works, 110
Cadillac Motor Company, 242, 248, 250-52
Calhoun, Capt. Joseph J., 434
California Institute of Technology, 138
Campbell, Lt. Gen. Levin H., 40, 203, 222, 412, 418, 421, 427, 431 434, 453, 455, 464-65
and creation of T-AC, 240
and credit for jeep development, 279
and decentralization of stock control, 412-13
and Drew Pearson’s charges, 209
and GOCO plants, 125
and heavy artillery, 101
and heavy artillery ammunition, 145-46
and heavy-heavy trucks, 287-89
and industry integration committees, 122-23
and inspection, 325
and low priority for Ordnance, 39
and machine tool panels, 91
and master depot system, 390-91
and Ordnance designs, 35
and placement of contracts with big business, 41
and postwar plans, 472-76
and production shortcuts, 94
and Safety Branch, 131
and selection of plant operators, 113
and spare parts, 301, 305-06, 310, 395, 398, 413
and specifications, 115-16
and St. Louis plant episode, 209
and Stock Control Branch, 415
and tank overhaul, 258
and tank production, 257
and termination of ammunition contracts, 219
and transfer of trucks to Ordnance, 283
Camp Eustis, 440, 442
Camp Hood, 460
Camp Jackson, 440, 442
Camp Meade, 442
Camp Perry, 164, 326-27
Candler Motor Supply Depot, 385
Carbine Production Committee, 175
Carbines, 154-55, 168-70, 174-78
Carlisle, Capt. Hollis M., 431-33
Carlisle ‘Hardware Company, 431
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, 233, 248-49
Carter Carburetor Division, 314
Carteret Motor Reception Park, 385
Cartridge cases, 118-19, 204-13
Case, Brig. Gen. Rolland W., 306
Cassino, use of artillery at, 104
Caterpillar Tractor Company, 233, 246, 253, 293
Cavalry, 4, 168
Central Planning Committee, Artillery Division, 92
Centrifugal casting, 92-94
Chandler, Senator Albert B., 372
Chapman, Rep. Virgil, 372
Charleston Ordnance Depot, 109, 363, 387, 438
Charleston Port of Embarkation, 391
Chase Brass and Copper Company, 196
Chavin, Col. Raphael S., 399
Checker Cab Company, 295
Chemical Warfare Service, 106, 120, 186, 362, 460
Cheney Bigelow Wire Works, 184
Cherokee Ordnance Works, 136
Chester Tank Depot, 254
Chevrolet Division (GMC), 79, 86, 274
Chicago Core Plant, 198
Chicago Ordnance District, 15, 91, 343-45
Chicago Tribune, 4
Chickasaw Ordnance Works, 110
Chief of Coast Artillery, 77
Chief of Field Artillery, 83
Chief of Ordnance, 5, 15-16, 20, 31, 36, 83, 127, 143, 219, 341, 351, 396, 400, 412, 416, 427. See also names of individual chiefs: Campbell; Tschappat; Wesson; Williams.
and bazooka rocket launcher, 182
and depot plans, 361-62, 369, 372
and educational orders, 323
and electrical accounting machines, 397
and freezing designs, 34-35
and inspection of matériel, 323-24, 334
and placement of contracts, 15-16, 28
and replacement factors, 49
and Service Command Shops, 457
and spare parts, 305, 395-96, 398, 413
and staff enlarged, 28-29
and truck procurement, 268
Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, 4, 5, 70, 268, 450
China, orders by, 158, 192
Christmas, Brig. Gen. John K., 232, 234-35, 238, 240, 245, 253, 255, 286, 288
Chrysler Corporation, 32, 77-78, 85, 202-03, 216, 228-31, 233, 243, 270, 273, 305, 311
Chrysler tank arsenal. See Detroit Tank Arsenal.
Churchill, Winston 5,, 59, 199, 469
Cincinnati Field Survey, 42, 325
Cincinnati Ordnance District, 28, 325
Civil Service Commission, U.S., 323
Civilian Automotive Adviser Program, 452-53
Civilian Conservation Corps, 270
Clark Equipment Company, 274, 288
Clay, Maj. Gen. Lucius D., 65, 146, 238, 245-46, 287
Cleveland Ordnance District, 13, 28
Cleveland Tractor Company, 293
Clifford, Colonel, 414
Coast Artillery, 4, 77
Coast Guard, 423, 453
Cold-working of gun tubes, 92
Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, 27, 75-76, 78, 80, 85, 156, 158-59, 179-81, 185
Columbus General Depot, 382, 391
Combined shops, 458-61
Company, ammunition, 445
Company, Ordnance maintenance, 441, 443, 445, 451
Company (Heavy Maintenance), 33rd Ordnance, 443
Compasses, 96
Competitive bidding, 267
Comptroller General, U.S., 267-68, 347
Congress, 1, 2, 7, 11, 19, 21, 24, 32, 40, 160, 162, 166, 170-71, 360-61, 371
Congressional Record, The, 128
Consolidated Stores Reports, 402, 411
Constant velocity joints, 273-74
Continental Foundry and Machine Company, 249
Continental Motors Company, 225, 244-45, 288, 341
Contract Settlement Act (1944), 348
Contract Settlement, Office of, 348-50
Contractors, criteria for selection of, 113
Contracts, 16-17
businessmen’s attitude toward, 29
CPFF, 110, 113, 127
criticism of terms of, 129-30
ground rules for negotiation of, 28
placement with industry in 1940, 26-27
settlement of, 339-50
speedy placement of, 36
termination of, 339-50
Control Division, ASF, 306, 417, 420
Controlled Materials Plan, 177
Copper, shortage of, 119, 197-98, 202, 213
Corbitt Company, 273, 275, 287, 294
Cordite, 137
Cornhusker Ordnance Plant, 204
Corning Glass Works, 99
Corps Areas, 354, 362, 443. See also Service Commands.
Corps of Engineers. See Engineers, Corps of.
Cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts (CPFF), 16, 113, 127, 130, 256, 349
Cotton linters, 136-37
Cowdrey Machine Works, 73, 82, 87
Craig, Gen. Malin, 3, 70n
Crain, Maj. Gen. James K., 5-6, 448, 465
diary of, 477
and plans for Ordnance battalions, 444-45
and plans for storage facilities, 364, 383
and proposed Ordnance regiments, 447
and selection of depot sites, 367, 370-72
and spare parts supply, 303-05
and World War I experience, 352, 444, 466
Creamer, Jack, 308
Crecy, battle of, 476
Cressona Ordnance Plant, 461
Crim, Maj. Lemuel P., 367
Cross Reference List of Ordnance Part and Stock Numbers, 406-07
Crosshauling of ammunition, 429-39
Crowell, Benedict. 23, 72, 135, 466,
Crowley, Patrick E., 13
Cummings, Col. Emerson L., 289
Cuneo Press, Inc., 198
Curtis Bay Ordnance Depot, 353, 363, 387, 438
Cutbacks in ammunition program, 1943, 143-44
Cyclonite, See RDX.
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Davis, C. K., 191
Davis, Senator James J., 372
Davis. Brig. Gen. Merle H. 140, 151, 208
Day of supply for ammunition, 48-51, 199, 217
Decentralization, 13-16, 411-13, 467
Defense Aid depots. See War Aid depots.
Defense Contract Service of OPM, 41
Defense Industries, Ltd., 221
Defense Plant Corporation, 196, 249
Defense program, criticism of, 34-35, 57
Defense Special Trains, 41
Defense Supplies Corporation, 158
Deitrick, Maj. Carroll H., 371-75
Delaware Ordnance Depot, 109, 353, 387
Denver Ordnance Plant, 43, 194, 200, 218
Depots. See also names of individual depots.
“A” and “B” types of, 378
for ammunition, 387
changes in mission of, 391-94
cost of, 377-78
evaluation of, 393-94
general, 353, 382
master depot system of, 389-91
overconstruction of, 469
plans for renovating ammunition at, 109
problems concerning, 376-79
reallocation of by ASF, 386-87
and storage of general supplies, 379-83
for tanks, 254-55
transfer of from QMC, 383-86
types of, 352-53, 387-89
War Aid, 380-81, 383, 385
after World War I, 360
Depression, effect of on procurement planning, 10
Deputy Chief of Ordnance, proposal for, 473
Descriptions of manufacture, 156-57
Desert Training Center, 385
Designs, Ordnance, 34-35, 225-29
Des Moines Ordnance Plant, 195, 200, 202, 203, 221
Detonators, machines for loading, 138
Detroit cup plant, 200
Detroit Ordnance District, 28, 184
Detroit Ordnance Plant, 32
Detroit Tank Arsenal, 86, 234, 246, 463, 473-74
construction of, 227-30
cost of tanks produced at, 256
development of, 242-43
total production at, 242
Devers, Maj. Gen. Jacob L., 245, 261
DeWitt, Maj. Gen. John L., 268-69
Diamond T Motor Company, 88, 273, 275, 287, 293, 295
Dickson, Brig. Gen. Tracy C., 93
Dickson Gun Plant, 94
Diebold, Inc., 249
Directors, 97-98
Disston, Henry and Sons, 233, 249
Distribution factor, 51
Distribution Unit, Field Service, 432-33
District Administration Branch, 31
District Offices, Ordnance, 11, 305, 310, 466-67, 474
“activation” of in 1940, 27
contracting procedures of, 28
evaluation of, 22
and inspection practices, 325
personnel of, 29
prewar plans and organization of, 13-16
relations of with arsenals and OCO, 31-32
and termination of contracts, 344-46
and training of inspectors, 323-24
and utilization of small business, 41
Division, armored, 53
Division, triangular, 53, 444
Division, 26th Infantry. 455
Dixie Ordnance Works, 110
DNT, 43
Dodge Motor Company, 274
Dominion Arsenal, 221
Dominion Engineering Works (Canada), 184
Drefs, Arthur G., 314
Dresser Manufacturing Company, 116
Drewry, Brig. Gen. Guy, 198, 211
Dukw (2½-ton amphibian), 258, 284-86, 295-97
Dunkards, and opposition to depot, 372
Duplex Printing Press Company, 81
DuPont Company, 27, 32, 110, 112
Duraloy Company, 73
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Eastman Kodak Company, 73, 96-97
Eaton Company, 288
Eau Claire Ordnance Plant, 200, 218
Echelon system, problems of, 448-50
Eclipse Machine Division (Bendix Aviation), 79
Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product, The, 327
Edgewood Arsenal, 362
Edison G. E. Appliance Company, 198
Educational orders, 5-6, 18-22, 73, 86, 95, 97, 114, 116, 157, 163, 174, 192, 224-25, 468
Educational Orders Act (1938), 19, 192, 323
Edwards, George D., 329-30
Egypt, requirements team sent to, 50
Eisenhower, General of the Army Dwight D., 102, 285
Eisner, Will, 454
Electric Auto-Lite Company, 254
Electrical accounting machines, 386, 396, 421, 470
Elgin National Watch Company, 15
Elliott Addressing Machine Company, Iz78n
Elliott Fisher bookkeeping machines, 397, 426
Elwood Ordnance Plant, 110, 131
Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation, 124
Empire Ordnance Corporation, 82, 87
Enfield rifles, 56, 156, 170
Engel, Rep. Albert J., 128, 132
Engineering Administrative Branch, 405, 408
Engineering Advisory Committees, 36, 39-40
Engineering Change Orders, 297
Engineering Division, OCO Detroit, 297
Engineers, Corps of, 110, 186, 244-46, 253, 283, 293, 460
Engines, 244-46, 265, 297
England, requirements team sent to, 50
Equipment, “critical” and “essential” items of, 46, 55
Equipment Division of Field Service, 364, 398
Erie Proving Ground, 326, 390, 442
Essential Extra Parts Lists (EEPL’s), 463
European Theater of Operations
and heavy-heavy trucks, 291
recoilless rifles in, 184
return of excess stocks from, 437-39
shortage of ammunition in, 148-49
surplus matériel in at end of war, 150
Evansville Ordnance Plant, 200, 202-03, 218, 259
Evening Star, 165
Excess stocks, 418-20, 435-39
Executive Order No. 9001, 342
Expenditure Programs (1940-42), 24-25, 55-58, 60, 62
Explosions, accidental, 130-31
Explosives Safety Branch. 131
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Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), 212-13
Fairless, Benjamin F., 402
False Claims Act, 210
Fargo Division (Chrysler), 274
Farrell, James A., 13
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 208
Federal Cartridge Company, 196, 203
Federal Machine and Welder Company, 242, 256
Federal Motor Truck Company, 273, 275, 287
Federal Standard Stock Catalog, 357, 402-04, 408
Federal Trade Commission, 279
Fees, contractors’, 129-30
Ferguson, Senator Homer, 102-03
Ferrous Metallurgical Advisory Board, 248-49
Field Artillery, 4, 57, 441
Field Director of Ammunition Plants, 125-30, 143, 203, 467, 477
Field Service, 5, 460, 473
and ammunition supply, 217, 423-39
decentralization of, 411-13
and depots, 352-54, 360-78, 379-94, 469-70
establishment of, 351-52
and IBM machines, 396-98, 426-27
and Lend-Lease shipments, 430-31
and maintenance, 440 64, 471-72
and Ordnance Provision System, 354-58, 410-11
and parts numbering, 402-03
and spare parts, 302-07, 398-99, 402-07, 413-14, 470
and Standard Nomenclature Lists, 358-59
and stock control, 410-22, 471
and transfer of motor vehicles to Ordnance. 399- 401
Fincke, D. M., 176
Finland, orders by, 192
Fire control instruments, 72, 95-99, 336-37
Fire Control Sub-Office (Frankford), 85, 96, 99, 336-37
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, 77-78, 90, 94, 99
First War Powers Act, 342
Fisher Body Division (GMC), 233
Fisher tank arsenal, 233, 235, 242, 253, 256-57, 261
Flannery Bolt Company, 185
Flora, George B. McClellan, 373
Forbes, Maj. Gen. A., 355n
Ford, Col. Elbert L., 81
Ford Motor Company, 86, 235, 242, 246, 249, 254, 256, 267, 270, 273, 277, 296, 311
Foreign orders, 158
Fort Benning, 305
Fort Crook Depot, 389
Fort Knox, 459-60
Fort Lewis, 385
Fort McClellan, 367
Fort Pitt Bedding Company, 215
Fort Wayne Ordnance Depot, 385, 387, 389-90, 392, 419
Fort Wingate, 366-67
Four Wheel Drive Company, 273, 287
Fourth Corps, Ordnance battalion with, 445
France, 1, 7, 38, 158, 192
Frankford Arsenal, 11, 27, 35, 42, 72, 120, 133 221, 390, 412, 467
and artillery ammunition, 105, 114, 118
and fire control instruments, 95-98, 353
Fire Control Sub-Office at, 85
and fuses, 122-23
maintenance sub-office at, 463
and postwar plans, 473-74
and small arms ammunition, 190-95, 218, 466
and Small Arms Ammunition Sub-Office, 203
and steel cartridge cases, 213
Franklin, Lt. Col. Edward C., 175-76
French Eleventh Corps, 444
Frigidaire Division (GMC), 180
Frink, Brig. Gen. James L., 283, 308-09
Fruehauf Trailer Company, 294-95
Fuller Company, 274, 288
Functional organization, ASF plan for, 475
Furlough program, 146
Fuses, 121-24
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Gadsden Ordnance Plant, 43, III, 115
Gage laboratories, 326
Gage Section, Ordnance, 326
Gages, 18-19, 326
Gallagher, Lt. Col. William, 333-34
Gamrath, Col. W. C., 393, 414
Garand, John C., 161, 169
Garand rifle, 157, 160-68, 173-74
Garner, John Nance, 2
Gary Armor Plant, 249
Gause, G. Rupert, 331n
Gear Grinding Machine Company, 273-74
General Accounting Office, 342, 347, 349
General Aviation Equipment Company, 215
General Board, U.S. Forces, ETO, 153
General depots, 382
General Electric Company, 13, 31, 75, 99, 124, 183-84
General Grant tank (M3), 82, 229, 235, 246, 252- 54, 263
General Inspection Manual (1935-38), 322
General Motors Corporation, 27, 106, 270, 273, 296, 306, 311, 313. See also divisions by name.
General Motors Overseas Operations, 306n, 396, 398
General Pershing tank (M26), 259, 262
General Sherman tank (M4), 235, 252-56, 263
General Staff, War Department, 46-48, 54, 352, 432, 436
and artillery, 68
and depot sites, 365-67, 377
and expansion of depots, 380-83, 386
and feasibility dispute, 62
G-3, 52
G-4, 4, 25, 48, 52, 55, 59, 81, 102, 145, 193-97, 365-67, 380, 436-37, 478
and procurement objectives in 1940, 24
and storage requirements in 1940, 363-64
and tank requirements, 234
War Plans Division of, 59
General Steel Castings Corporation, 248-49
General Stuart tank, 226
General supplies, storage of, 365-66
General Supply Branch, 398-99, 402, 411
Gerber, Col. Theodore C., 125, 127, 130-31
German army, 226-27
Germany, 33, 239, 259-64, 292, 465
Gerstenslager Company, 295
Gillespie, Col. Alexander G., 226-27
Gillespie. T. A., Company, 130
Gitzendanner, Maj. F. A., 335n
Glancy, Brig. Gen. Alfred R., 240, 256
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, 87
Gopher Ordnance Plant, 145
Government-owned, contractor-operated plants (GOCO), 13, 468-69. See also Field Director of Ammunition Plants and names of individual plants.
for artillery ammunition, 105-53
competition among, 127-28
contracts for in 1940, 32-33
dual control at, 126-27
for small arms ammunition, 194-221
Gramm Company, 295
“Grand Slam” bombs, 119, 147
Green, Dr. Constance M., 333
Gregory, Maj. Gen. Edmund B., 276, 279-80
Grenades, 152
Griffenhagen and Associates, 408
Gross, Lt. Col. Boone, 203, 217
Group, Ordnance, 447
Group chiefs, Field Service, 357, 399, 410
Groups, supply, 356-57
Guiberson Diesel Engine Company, 227, 244, 341-42
Guide Lamp Division (GMC), 182
Guided missiles, 476
Gulf Ordnance Plant, 144
Gulick, Dr. Luther, 325
Gun motor carriages, 88, 237
Gunner’s quadrant. See Fire Control Instruments.
Guns. See Artillery weapons.
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Haines, Rep. Harry L., 372
Half-track cars, 88, 292-93
Half Track Industry Integration Committee, 293
Hambleton, Col. Harry B., 405-06
Harbord, Maj. Gen. James G., 13
Hardy, Brig. Gen. Roswell E., 130, 140, 142, 144
Hare. Lt. Col. Ray M., 30
Harrington and Richardson Arms Company, 157-58
Harris, Maj. Gen. Charles T., Jr., 22, 37-39, 59, 114, 197, 226, 228, 325, 465, 468
and additional ammunition plants, 197-200
and British requirements, 199
as chief of Industrial Service, 5-6, 13
as chief of Planning Branch, 9
and defense of Ordnance program, 57-58
and designs for mass production, 35
and machine tool deliveries, 39
and plans for new facilities, 12, 32
and plans for postwar organization, 472-76
and requirements, 57, 238
and small arms ammunition production, 199, 217
and spare parts, 303-05
and White House conference on tanks, 232
Harris, Col. John P., 108-09, 134-35
Harris Board Report, 472-76
Hatch, Senator Carl A., 103
Hatcher, Maj. Gen. Julian S., 402, 407, 415, 465
Hauseman, Col. David N., 346
Hayes, Maj. Gen. Thomas J., 119, 197, 208, 213, 259, 287, 289, 331, 474
Height finders. See Fire control instruments.
Helmets, 34, 186
Henry Disston and Sons, 233, 249
Hercules Motor Company, 273, 275, 288
Hercules Powder Company, 32, 112, 131, 137-38
Herlong, Capt. Henry W., 374
Heron, Col. Thomas, 355
Hertz Committee, report of, 282, 452
High Standard Manufacturing Company, 158-59, 185
Highway Company, 295
Hinchcliffe, Arthur, 425
Hiroshima, 476
Hispano-Suiza gun, 79
Hitler, Adolf, 1, 223, 239
Hoe, R. and Co., 73, 75, 86
Holabird QM Depot, 268, 385-86
Holston Ordnance Works, 1 11, 136
Hoover Commission, 395
Hopkins, Harry L., 234
Houston, Sam, 370
Houston Ship Channel, 370
Houston Tool Company, 94
Howard, Col. Graeme K., 404
Howitzers. See Artillery weapons.
Hughes, Maj. Gen. Everett S., 364, 413, 464
Humble Oil and Refining Company, 135
Hurley, Roy T., 122
Hutchinson, B. Edwin, 402
Huth, Capt. C., 352
Hyde, George J., 169
Hynds, Maj. William, 399
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IBM machines, 396-98, 421, 426-28. See also International Business Machines Corporation.
Igloos, ammunition storage, 361, 368
Illinois Institute of Technology, 132
Illinois Ordnance Plant, 108, 111, 144
India, requirements team sent to, 50
Indiana Ordnance Works, 32, 110-11, 131, 137-38, 473-74
Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 478
Industrial Service (or Division), Ordnance, 5, 27-28, 31-32, 95, 303-04, 325, 330-31, 351, 414, 434, 467
Industry integration committees, 142-43, 471
for carbines. 175-77
for heavy trucks. 288
for machine guns, 181
for M43
mechanical time fuse, 122-23
for small arms ammunition, 203-04
for tanks, 244
“Industry-Ordnance Team,” 465
Infantry, 4, 164, 168-69, 227
Infantry Board, 166
Initial Protective Force program, 109, 363
Inland Manufacturing Division (GMC), 169-70, 174-75, 177-78, 182
Inspection, 320-38, 472
of artillery, 95
and artillery ammunition, 140
Edwards report on, 329-30
of fire control instruments, 336-37
gages for, 326
of machine guns, 181
manuals for, 322-23, 334
recruiting and training personnel for, 323-24
of small arms ammunition, 209-11
of tank-automotive matériel, 334-36
Trundle report on, 331-32
types of, 321-22
Inspection Branch, Ordnance, 330
Inspector General, The, 129, 401, 451, 456-57, 478
Integration committees. See Industry integration committees.
Interchangeability of parts, 403-05
Interior, Department of, 367
Internal Revenue Bureau, 350
International Business Machines Corporation. 80, 175, 178, 395, 397, 426
International Harvester Company, 27, 80, 242, 251, 270, 273, 275, 287, 293, 343-44
International Silver Company, 178n
Introduction to the Ordnance Catalog (IOC), 358
Iowa Ordnance Plant, 43, 131
Iowa Transmission Company, 233, 246
Irwin-Pederson Arms Company, 174-75
Isham, H. P., 340, 345
Italian campaign, 102, 104, 145
Ithaca Gun Company, 158, 185
Iwo Jima, 104
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Jackes Evans Manufacturing Company, 215
James, Gov. Arthur H., 372
Jayhawk Ordnance Works, 110
Jeep (¼-ton truck), 276-79, 295-97
Jefferson Proving Ground, 327
Joe Dope posters, 454
John Deere Company, 233
Johns-Manville Corporation, 390
Johnson, Louis, 17-18, 23, 34, 59
Johnson, Capt. Melvin M., Jr., 165-68
Johnson rifle, 160, 165-68
Joint Aircraft Committee, 120
Joint Army-Navy Ammunition Storage Board, 361, 368, 436
Joint Termination Board, 346
Joint Termination Regulations (JTR), 348-49
Joint Working Committee Concerning Return of U.S. Army and U.S. Navy Ammunition from Overseas. 438
Jones. R. A., and Company, 138
Judge Advocate General, 112, 342, 347
Julian P. Friez and Sons. 124
Justice Department, 209
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Kankakee Ordnance Plant, 43, 110
Kearney and Trecker Corporation, 288
Keller, K. T., 228, 230, 244, 310, 390, 402
Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, 200, 203
Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Company, 159, 181, 273, 278
Kennedy-Van Saun Engineering and Manufacturing Company, 90
Kenosha Ordnance Plant, 200, 203
Kenworth Motor Truck Company, 287, 294
Kerr, John D., 370-71
Kerrison predictor, 97-98
Keuffel and Esser, 96
Key Personnel Reports, 477
Keystone Ordnance Plant, 134, 145
Kings Mills Ordnance Plant, 200, 202-03, 218
Kingsbury Ordnance Plant 113, 204
Kirk, Maj. Gen. James, 220
Knight, Lt. Col. William W., Jr., 232
Knuckey Truck Company, 294
Knudsen, William S., 16, 45-46, 86, 227-28, 234-35
Korean War, 151
Krock, Arthur, 231
Kroeger, William J., 184
“Kromuskits,” 184
Kutz, Brig. Gen. Harry R., 402
–L–
Labor supply, 37, 211-12, 377
Laidlaw, Col. Waldo E., 414
Lake City Ordnance Plant, 43, 194, 198, 200, 203, 218, 221
Lamont, Robert P., 13
Lane, Capt. R. K.. 352
Lansdowne Steel and Iron Company, 110
L. C. Smith-Corona Typewriter Corporation, 173
Leasing of storage space, 365-66
Leathers, Lt. Leon M., Jr., 430
Lee-Enfield rifle, 159, 171-72
Legal restrictions on procurement, 16-17, 26
Lend-Lease Act, 57, 111, 159, 190, 307
Letterkenny Ordnance Depot, 373, 378, 380-82, 386-92
Lewis, Brig. Gen. Burton O., 17, 228, 232
Life magazine, 165
Lima Locomotive Works, 230, 233, 235, 242, 256
Lima Tank Depot, 94, 254
Lincoln Ordnance Depot, 390
Lippmann, Walter, 1n
Little Rock Motor Supply Depot, 385-86
Lloyd, N. P., 91
Loading plants, 105-12, 138-40
Lodge, Senator Henry Cabot, 2, 4
“Logistics in World War II.” ASF final report, 393
London Times, 223
Lone Star Ordnance Plant, 371
“Long Tom,” 155-mm. gun, 68, 70. See also Artillery weapons.
Longhorn Ordnance Plant, 147
Longue Pointe Depot, 254
Lordstown Ordnance Depot, 385, 389
Los Angeles Ordnance Depot, 387
Lot numbers, ammunition, 424
Lowell Ordnance Plant, 200, 203, 218
Lucas, Maj, Gen. John P., 104, 275n
Luke, Lt. Col. Ittai A., 367, 370
Lutes, Lt. Gen. LeRoy, 417
–M–
Macauley, Alvan, 281
McCord Radiator and Manufacturing Company, 186
McCormick, Fowler, 402
McCoy, Maj. Gen. Frank R., 65-66, 143-44
McCoy Board (1943), 52, 65-66, 143-44
McFarland, Brig. Gen. Earl, 5
Machine guns, 61, 154-56, 159, 170-71, 178-81, 213-14. See also Small arms weapons.
Machine pistols, 182
Machine Records Unit, 398
Machine-Tool Panels, 91, 471
Machine tools, 18, 28, 38-39, 84, 91, 161-62, 192, 196, 238, 241, 244, 246, 251, 257, 282
Mack Manufacturing Company 230, 246-47, 270, 273, 275, 287, 295
McMahon, Col. Fred A., 420
MacMorland, Brig. Gen. E. E., 414, 450, 458-60
McNair, Lt. Gen. Lesley J., 100, 447, 451
McNarney Directive, 66
McQuay-Norris Company, 194, 206, 211-12, 314
Magnavox Company, 183
Magnesium, plant for producing, z111
Maintenance Company, 33rd, 443
Maintenance Division, ASF, survey by, 459
Maintenance Division, Field Service, 442, 464
Maintenance Division, OCO-D, 464
Maintenance engineering 463-64
Maintenance factor, 47
Maintenance of Ordnance matériel, 354, 440-64, 471-72
at the arsenals, 442-43
combined shops for, 458-61
echelon system of, 448-50
neglect of, 454-55, 471
preventive, 451-55
problems of automotive, 450-51
and the reclamation program of 1944, 451-62
shops for, 455-58
Maintenance shops, 455-58
Manufacturing Service, Ordnance, 351
Marine Corps, 47, 143, 166-67, 423, 453
Maritime Commission. See United States Maritime Commission.
Marks, J. H., 340n
Marlin Firearms Company, 159, 181
Marmon-Herrington Company, 242, 252, 257, 287
Marshall, General of the Army George C., 4, 59, 76
Martin. Glenn L., 7
Massey-Harris Company, 242, 251-52
Master depot system, 389-91, 407, 470
Master supply depots, 388
Materials, shortage of, 37, 91-92, 238, 257
Matériel Control Division, OCO, 67
Mauldin, Bill, 299
Maxim um Distribution Level, 416
Mead Committee, U.S. Senate, 153, 310, 314, 317, 400
Meader, George, 314
Mechanical Time Fuse Committee (M43), 122-23
Medal for Merit, 161
Medical Department, U.S. Army, 106, 186, 386, 460
Mennonites, 372
“Merchants of Death” era, 107
Mergenthaler-Linotype Company, 73, 97-99
Metallic Belt Link Industry Integration Committee, 215
Metallic belt links, 213-15
Mexican punitive expedition, 318
Meyns, Col. L. J., 397, 399, 411
Midland Steel Corporation, 278
Milan Ordnance Depot, 378, 387
Miles, Col. Francis H., Jr., 131
Military Affairs Committee, House of Representatives, 339, 346-47
Military Affairs Committee, Senate, 7
Military Service, Ordnance, 5
Military Service, proposal for, 473
Miller Printing Machinery Company, 184
Milwaukee Ordnance Plant, 200, 218
Mines, 152
Ministry of Supply, British, 239
Minton, Brig. Gen. Hugh C., 257
Missouri Ordnance Works, 110
Mobilization Regulations 4-2 (1935), 461
Modification Work Orders (MWO’s), 442, 450-51, 463-64
Montgomery Ward and Company, 355, 431
Montreal Locomotive Works, 242
Moore, Maj. Gen. Richard C., 63, 171, 193, 235
Morgantown Ordnance Works, 110, 132, 136
Mortars, 70, 74, 84, 88-90, 101, 146, 152, 154, 166
Mosler Safe Company, 249
Motor bases, transfer of, 383-86
Motor reception park, 385
Motor supply depots, 385
Motor Transport Service (Division), QM, 269, 275, 282-83, 306-09, 385, 399, 404, 448, 450, 470
Motor transport vehicles. See Trucks.
Mt. Rainier Base Shop, 458
Mt. Rainier Ordnance Depot, 386
Mulliken, Maj. Stanley E., 433
Muncie Gear Works, 81
Munitions Assignment Board, 308
Munitions Board Cataloging Agency, 409
Munitions Building, 5, 8, 29
Munitions Manufacturing Corporation, 80, 87
Munitions Program of 30 June 1940, 7, 12, 16, 32, 34, 55-56, 59, 193, 227, 364-65
Musser, C. Walton, 184
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Nagasaki, 476
Nansemond Ordnance Depot, 109, 353, 363, 387, 438
Nash Engineering Company, 74
Nash-Kelvinator Company, 97-98, 156, 251, 295
Nathan, Robert, 234
National Automobile Dealers Association, 447
National Blank Book Company, 178n
National Bureau of Standards, 124
National Defense Act of 1920, 9, 360
National Defense Advisory Committee (NDAC), 112, 227, 273, 277
National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), 124, 136, 138, 284
National Match rifle, 164
National Pneumatic Company, 74, 81, 87
National Rifle Association, 164-65
National Rifle Matches, 164
National Safety Council, 132
National Slug Rejectors, Inc., 288
National Tube Company, 116
Navajo Ordnance Depot, 376-78, 381-82, 387
Naval Ammunition Depot, 360
Naval Gun Factory, 72
Navy, U.S., 29, 38, 40, 44, 47, 58, 61, 72, 77, 79, 98, 102, 106, 119-20, 124, 136, 143, 197, 245, 250, 286, 360-61, 381, 386, 419, 423, 433, 453, 468
Negotiated contracts, 271-72
Negotiated settlements, 342-50
Negro workers, 211-13
Nelson. Donald M., 59, 86-87, 102-03, 234, 290
Netherlands, orders by, 158
Neutrality legislation, 10
New Caledonia, requirements team sent to, 50
New Cumberland General Depot, 382
New England Small Arms Corporation, 42, 172, 178
New York Central Lines, 13, 254
New York Ordnance District, 13, 28, 37, 98, 324, 346
New York Times, The, 231
New York University, 346
Newsweek magazine, 281n
Niblo, Brig. Gen. Urban, 447, 450, 465
Normoyle Ordnance Base Shop, 386, 458
Normoyle Ordnance Depot, 415
North Africa, 65, 261-62, 286, 336, 343, 437-39, 451-52
North African Theater (NATOUSA), 437, 454
Numbering, spare parts, 402-03, 470
Numerical Index of Manufacturers’ Part Numbers and Drawing Numbers, 406
Nye, Senator Gerald P., 7
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Office Chief of Ordnance-Detroit, 125-26, 240, 297, 467, 477. See also Tank-Automotive Center.
Office of Contract Settlement, 348-50
Office of Matériel Control, 419
Office of Production Management (OPM), 21, 37, 39, 41, 51, 62, 197, 232, 234, 272, 277
Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), 124
Office of War Mobilization, 346
Official Ordnance Part Number, 405
Official Stock Number, 405, 407, 414
Ogden Arsenal, 420
Ogden Ordnance Depot, 353, 360 362, 373, 375, 379-81, 387-91, 461
Ohio Gun Plant, 94. See also Lima Tank Depot.
Ohio Steel Foundry Company, 94
Okinawa, recoilless rifles used on, 184
Oldsmobile Division (GMC), 80, 82, 87
Oleum, production of, 111-12
Oliver Farm Machinery Company, 79, 86
On-vehicle matériel, 254-55
Optical elements, 98-99
Optical Research Company, 98
ORD-5, 406, 470
ORD-14, 406, 470
ORD-15, 406-07, 470
Ordnance (magazine), 478
Ordnance Base Armament Maintenance Battalions, 447
Ordnance Committee. See Ordnance Technical Committee.
Ordnance Department. See also Chief of Ordnance.
plans for postwar organization of, 472-76
role of, 4
Ordnance Gage Section, 326
Ordnance Group, 447
Ordnance Light Maintenance Company, 451
Ordnance Numbering Board, 404, 421
Ordnance Provision System, 354-56, 358-59, 396, 410-11, 414, 471
Ordnance Publications for Supply Index (OPSI), 358
Ordnance Safety Board, 368
Ordnance Service Command Shops, 456-57
Ordnance Technical Committee, 25, 165, 169, 238, 276, 358, 408, 418
Ordnance Vehicle Maintenance Committee, 453
Otis Elevator Company, 73, 75, 86
Ozark Ordnance Works, 110
“P” items, 419
–P–
Pacific Car and Foundry Company, 235, 242, 249, 256, 287-88, 294
Packing boxes and cans, 216-17
Palmer Woods Ordnance Depot, 387, 390
Pantex Ordnance Plant, 144
Panther tank, 239, 261, 263
Paper and Textile Machinery Company, 93
Parker-Wolverine Company, 200
Partridge, Lt. Col. Clarence E., 49
Partridge Board Report (1938), 49, 51
Parts and Accessories Unit, Field Service, 396
Parts and Supplies Section, of General Supply Branch, 398, 400
Parts Control Division, Ordnance, 306, 398
Parts Number Control Section, OCO-D, 406
Parts Numbering and Interchangeability Program, 402, 409, 414
Patterson, Robert P., 171, 230, 232, 235, 237-38, 272, 349. See also Assistant Secretary of War; Under Secretary of War.
and artillery ammunition production, 146
and Colt plant, 80
and criticism of procurement progress, 34-36
and demand for AA guns, 79
and lag in truck production, 280
and machine tools, 38-39
and St. Louis plant, 208
and small arms ammunition, 195, 198
and tank improvements, 226
and termination of contracts. 219, 339
Patton, Lt. Gen. George S., Jr., 285
Paullin, Lt. Col. Charles S., 208
Pearson, Drew, 209
Pennsylvania, University of, 346
Pennsylvania Ordnance Works, 387
Pentagon, 8, 29, 467
Periscopes. See Fire Control Instruments.
Personnel carriers, 292-93
Philadelphia Ammunition Supply Office (PASO), 412, 428, 431, 438
Philadelphia Ordnance District, 28, 324-25
Philco Radio and Television Corporation, 124
Picatinny Arsenal, 11, 27, 31, 74, 105, 122, 125, 135, 138-39, 327, 360, 474
Pig Point Ordnance Depot, 353. See also Nansemond Ordnance Depot.
Pistols, 154-55, 168, 185-86
Pittsburgh Forgings Company, 116
Pittsburgh Ordnance District, 18, 116-17
Planning Branch, Office of ASW, 9, 11
Polk, R. L., Company, 406
Pomona Ordnance Base, 385
Pontiac Division (GMC), 85
Port Chicago explosion, 131
Portage Ordnance Depot, 367, 376, 378, 387, 426
Pottstown Ordnance Depot, 474
Powell, Col. Grosvenor F., 424
Power trains. See Transmissions.
“Preliminary work plan sheets,” 142-43
Presidential objectives for production, 59-61, 83-84, 305
President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practices (FEPC). 212-13
Pressed Steel Car Company, 116, 233-34, 242
Preventive maintenance, 451-55
Preventive Maintenance Board, 453
Preventive Maintenance Branch, Ordnance, 453
Preventive Maintenance Section, 452
Priest (105-mm. howitzer), 88
Priorities, 38-39, 84, 231-33, 282, 287, 468
Probable Failure of Ordnance Program, memo on, 38
Procter and Gamble Soap Company, 113
Procurement Control Branch, QM, 280
Procurement planning, 9-23, 26-31
Procurement Review Board, 143, 217-18
Procurement Service, proposed, 473
Product Centers, proposed, 473-76
Product Correction Reports, 463
Production achievements, 1940-41, 42-44
Production Consultants Committee of WPB, 290
Production Division, ASF, 257
Production planning books, 62
Production Service Branch, Industrial Service, 325
Production studies, 19-21, 73, 156, 468
Propellants, 107
Protective Mobilization Plan (PMP), 24-25, 42, 55- 56, 158, 363, 365
Proving grounds, 326-27
Provisional Manual for Ordnance Field Service (1919), 352, 355
Proximity fuse, 123-24
Public Law 703 (1940), 271
Public Works Administration, 270
Pueblo Ordnance Depot, 374, 378, 381-82, 387-88
Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company, 90, 116, 230, 233-34, 242, 256
Pyle, Ernie, 300
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Quad Cities Tank Arsenal, 251-52, 255, 259, 343-44
Quadrants. See Fire control instruments.
Quaker Oats Company, 113
Quality control, statistical, 207, 320-38, 472. See also Inspection.
Quality Hardware and Machine Company, 174
Quartermaster Corps
and allocated facilities, 30
and construction of new plants, 110
and standardization of vehicles, 266-70
and transfer of depots to Ordnance, 383-86
and transfer of trucks to Ordnance, 64, 240, 266, 467, 471
Quartermaster Corps Freight Traffic Branch, 425
Quartermaster Corps Technical Committee, 284
Quartermaster General, The, 112, 272, 376, 451-52
–R–
Radford Ordnance Works, 110-11, 131, 137-38
Radio Corporation of America, 13
Rainbow Division, 6
Ramsey, Col. Norman F., 362
Ramsey Board, 362-63, 443-44
Randolph, Rep. Jennings, 372
Range finders. See Fire control instruments.
Raritan Arsenal, 351, 359, 362, 404, 430, 474
Raritan Ordnance Depot, 109, 353, 387, 389-91
Ravenna Ordnance Depot, 367, 369
Ravenna Ordnance Plant, 110, 367
Raw Materials Facility, 177
RDX, 111, 114, 130, 134, 136, 147, 204
Read Machinery Company, 89
Readjustment Division, ASF, 346
Reclamation program (1944), 461-62
Recoil mechanisms, 72-73, 86
Recoilless rifles, 154, 184-85
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 420
Records Group, 427-28
Recuperators, 72
Red Ball Express, 291
Red River Ordnance Base Shop, 458
Red River Ordnance Depot, 371, 378, 380, 382, 386-90, 420, 436
Redstone Arsenal, 476
Reed Roller Bit Company, 246
Regiments, infantry, equipment of, 53
Regiments, Ordnance, 447
Regular Army, 5, 9, 55, 440
Regular Army officers, 29, 108
Remington Arms Company, 27, 156, 159, 163, 172- 73, 191-95, 202-03, 218-19, 221
Remington-Rand accounting machines, 397
Remington-Rand Company, 185, 397
Renegotiation Act, 346, 350
Reo Motor Company, 275
Replacement factor, 47-51
Republic Steel Corporation, 233, 249
Requirements, 45-67
and Army Supply Program, 59-64
for artillery, 1943-45, 99-103
for artillery ammunition, 143-46
for aviation ordnance, 51-52
and day of supply, 48-51
and defense period, 55-59
elements of computation of, 46-54
fluctuations in, 52-54
importance of, 45-46, 469
for small arms, 170-71
for spare parts, 470-71
and Supply Control, 64-67
for tanks, 232-33, 235-37, 240, 256-59
teams for collecting data for, 50
Requirements Division, ASF, 257
Requirements Division, Ordnance, 51, 67
Research and Development Division, 467
Research and Development Service, proposed, 473
Reserve officers, Ordnance, 29
Reserve Storage depots, 388
Revere Brass and Copper Company, 27, 196
Revolvers, 156, 185-86
Rice, Brig. Gen. John H., 161, 351, 441
Richards, Brig. Gen. George J., 66
Richmond Tank Depot, 254
Rifles, 2, 154, 174, 333-34. See also Recoilless rifles.
Browning automatic (BAR), 155-56, 170-72, 174, 178
Enfield, 156, 170, 174
Japanese, 168
Johnson, 165-68
Lee-Enfield, 159, 171-72, 174
M1 (Garand), 155, 160-68, 170-74
Production of, 171-74
Requirements for, 170-71
Springfield 1903, 155, 160-61, 167-68, 170-74
Tokarev 1940, 167-68
Rochester Defense Corporation, 174
Rock Island Arsenal, 27, 81, 85, 187, 242, 248, 353-54, 467
as center for carriages and recoil mechanisms, 72
and descriptions of manufacture, 157
and early tank production, 223-26, 252
Field Service suboffice at, 412, 463
and machine gun production, 180
and maintenance work, 442-43
and metallic belt links, 215
proposed artillery product center, 473-74
and rifle-making machinery in storage, 159-60, 172
and spare parts for vehicles, 302-05
Rockefeller Center, 113
Rocket launcher, 2.36-in., 154, 182-84
Rocket launcher, 4.5-in., 99
Rocket powder, production of, 137-38
Rockets, 66, 476
Rock-Ola Company, 174-75
Rollins, Maj. Joseph, 435-36
Rommel, Erwin, 300
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 2, 365, 409
and aid to Britain, 156
and production of gages, 326
and production goals, 59-64, 83-84, 171, 180, 199, 232-39
and visit to Watervliet Arsenal, 74
Roosevelt, Theodore, 172
Rossford Ordnance Depot, 385, 389-90
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME), 459
Rubber, shortage of, 281-84
Rudolf Wurlitzer Company, 124
Russell Manufacturing Company, 213-14
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“S” items, 419
Sadder, Col. William Field, 411
Safety, in artillery ammunition plants, 109, 130-33
Safety and Security Branch, 131
Safford, Brig. Gen. Hermon, 474
Safford Committee (1945), 414
Saginaw Steering Gear Division (GMC), 157, 175, 180
St. Louis Ordnance Depot, 390, 412
St. Louis Ordnance District, 28, 208
St. Louis Ordnance Plant, 194, 204-13, 218, 221
St. Louis Star-Times, 207-08
San Antonio Arsenal, 362
San Antonio Ordnance Center, 385
San Antonio Ordnance Depot, 354, 363, 387-88, 390
San Francisco Ordnance District, 28, 346
San Jacinto Ordnance Depot, 370, 378, 387, 438
Santa Anna, 370
Savage Arms Corporation, 158-59, 180
Savanna Ordnance Depot, 109, 353, 360-63, 387
Savanna Proving Ground, 442
Sayler, Maj. Gen. Henry B., 151
Schedules of Stores Reports, 357-58
Schenectady General Depot, 382
Schick, John, 426
“Science-Industry-Ordnance Team,” 465
Scientists Against Time, 123
Scioto Ordnance Plant, 218
Seabees, 453
Sears Roebuck and Company, 355, 402
Secretary of War, 20, 36, 60, 83, 104, 146, 234, 272, 284, 353, 361-62, 369-70, 372, 375, 423, 475. See also Stimson, Henry L.
Select Committee on National Expenditure (British), 239
Seneca Ordnance Depot, 371, 378, 381-82, 387-88
Service Command shops, 456-57, 462
Service Commands, 388, 391, 415, 436, 456, 458, 461, 475
Services of Supply. See Army Service Forces.
Services of Supply, U.S. (World War I), 352
Settlement of contracts, 339-50
Settlement Review Board, 344-45
Seventh Army, 285, 424
Shaw, Brevet Lt. Col. George C., 395
Shells, procurement of, 114-18
Shepherd, Lt. Col. Harold, 342
Sherwin-Williams Paint Company, 113
Shewhart, Dr. Walter A., 327-29
“Short List,” 141
Shot, procurement of, 114, 117
Sicily, Dukw in invasion of, 285
Sierra Ordnance Depot, 374, 377-78, 380-82, 387-90
Signal Corps, U.S. Army, 106, 124, 186, 386, 460
Simmons Bed Company, 200
Simon, Col. Leslie E., 327-29, 472
Singer Manufacturing Company, 97-98, 156-58
Sioux Ordnance Depot, 376, 378, 381-82, 387-88
Site Board, ASW appointment of, 112
Sites for ammunition plants, 108-10
Sites for depots, 366-76
Slezak, Col. John, 343
Small arms weapons, 2, 154-87. See also individual items such as carbines and rifles.
and aid to Britain, 155-56
and BAR production, 178
and bazooka rocket launcher, 182-84
and carbine production, 168-70, 174-78
Garand Johnson rifle controversy, 165-68
and machine guns, 178-81
miscellaneous items, 185-86
and production of Garand rifle, 160-61, 163-65
and production preparedness, 156-60
and recoilless rifles, 184-85
requirements for, 170-71
rifle production, 171-74
and Springfield Armory, 161-63
and submachine guns, 181-82
Small arms ammunition. See Ammunition, small arms.
Small Arms Ammunition Suboffice (Philadelphia), 203
Small Arms Division, Industrial Service, 203
Small Arms Division, Research and Development Service, 184
Small business, alleged neglect of, 40-42
Smaller War Plants Corporation, 184
Smith and Wesson, Inc., 186
Smith, R. Elberton, 478
Smith, Lt. Col. Samuel L., 425-26, 435
Smith-Corona Typewriter Corporation, 173
Smith-Hinchman and Grylls, 406
Smokeless powder, 11-12, 43, 104, 109, 111, 137, 220
Social Security Building, 29
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), 272, 453
Somers, Brig. Gen. Richard H., 325, 329
Somervell, Lt. Gen. Brehon B., 418, 420, 453
and AA gun production, 281
and Army Supply Program, 58, 62
and bomb requirements, 121
and Defense Aid requirements, 63
arid depot construction, 381
and motor vehicle production, 281
and postwar organization plans, 475
and Service Command shops, 457-59
and small arms ammunition requirements, 195, 200
and small arms requirements, 171
and spare parts. 308, 317, 413
and stock control, 401-02
and tank requirements, 237-38
and transfer of motor vehicles, 283, 289, 468
Southwestern Proving Ground, 327
Soviet Union, 59-60, 138, 232, 275
Spalding, A. G., and Brothers, 178n
Spalding, Brig. Gen. George R., 362
Spare parts, 257, 266, 269
for automotive vehicles, 413-15, 470
categories of, 301-02, 312-13
consumption data (1921), 442-43
effect of motor vehicles transfer on, 399-400
identification and numbering of, 395-409
interchangeability of, 316, 403-05
methods of procurement of, 311-14
Ordnance and (1939-42), 302-07
overseas supply of, 314-18
packaging of, 315
Quartermaster Corps and (1939-42), 307-09
reclamation of, 461-62
Senate Committee investigation of, 311-14
after transfer of vehicles (1942-45), 309-19
and weapons, 301-02, 413, 470
Spare Parts Board, 304, 306
Spare Parts Service, proposed, 306
Sparkman and Stephens, Inc., 285
Special Parts and Interchangeability Group, 404
“Special planning” studies, 67
Specifications, 34-36, 115-16, 267-68
Speer, Albert, 239
Sperry Corporation, 75
Sperry Gyroscope Company, 86, 96
Spicer Manufacturing Corporation, 246, 273, 278, 288
Springfield Armory, 27, 35, 81, 92, 155, 176, 178- 79, 353-54, 360, 390, 466, 473-74
and carbine design, 169
and fabric belts, 214
and inspection problems, 333-34
and lag in Garand production, 173-74
and miscellaneous items, 185-87
and production preparedness, 156-60
reserves stored at, 353
and rifle controversy, 165-68
rifle output at, 2, 161-63
Springfield Ordnance District, 184, 346
Springfield rifle (1903), 155, 160-61, 167-68, 170-73
Stalin, Josef, 234
Standard Form No. 32, 16
Standard Nomenclature Lists (SNL), 351, 358-59, 397, 403, 408, 424, 451
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, 135
Standard Products Company, 175
Standard Steel Spring Company, 249, 288, 292
Standard truck fleet, proposed, 268-70, 296
Standardization, motor vehicle, 266-70
Star-Times, 207-08
Station Excess Stock Teams, 420
Statistical sampling. See Inspection; Quality control, statistical.
Steel
need of for carbines, 176-77
shortage of for trucks, 282, 284
use of for cartridge cases, 119, 213
Steese, Col. Charles M., 376, 380
Sten gun, ammunition for, 192
Stevens Arms Company Division (Savage Arms Corporation), 159
Stewart-Warner Corporation, 15
Stilwell Road, 291
Stimson, Henry L., 104, 373, 450, 475. See also Secretary of War.
Stock control, 410-22, 471
Stock Control Branch (OCO-D), 412-13
Stock Control Branch (OCO), 415
Stock Control Division (ASF), 420
Stock Control Division (Field Service), 413
Stock levels, 416
Stock List of Items, 406
Stockton Base Shop, 458
Stockton Ordnance Depot, 389
Stokes, F. J., Machine Company, 139
Storage catalogue, World War I, 354-55
Stribling, Col. Simpson R., 146
Studebaker Company, 273, 275, 296
Subcontracts and small business, 41-42
Submachine guns, 155, 181-82, 192
Submarine Mine Depot, 391
Suboffices, Field Service, 412
Sullivan’s expedition (1779), 371
Sunbeam Electric Company, 202
Sunflower Ordnance Works, 111, 137-38
Supply and Maintenance Service, proposal for, 473
Supply Contract No. 1 (form), 340
Supply control, 64-67, 416-18
Supply Control System, ASF, 416-18
Supply Section, Ammunition Supply Division, 425
Supreme Court, U.S., 210
Surgeon General’s Office, 131
Surplus matériel, 418-19
Surplus Property Act (1944), 420
Surveys of industry, 17-19, 73, 468
Susquehanna Ordnance Depot, 387
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Tables of allowances, 47, 63, 358
Tables of basic allowances, 47, 63, 358
Tables of equipment, 47, 53
Tables of organization, 47, 63
Tables of organization and equipment, 358
“Tall Boy” bombs, 119, 147
Talladega National Forest, 367
Tank and Combat Vehicle Division, 283
Tank arsenal. See Detroit Tank Arsenal.
Tank-Automotive Center (T-AC), 256, 331, 402, 404, 412, 451, 474. See also Office Chief of Ordnance—Detroit.
establishment of, 240, 283
and follow-up of truck production. 288-89
and inspection, 334-36
and parts distribution, 399, 402, 421
and personnel cuts, 400-401
Supply Branch of, 388, 404
Tank Committee, 36
Tank Corps, World War I, 224
Tank depots, 254-55
Tank guns, 81-85, 87-89, 101
Tank recovery vehicles, 253, 293-95
Tank transporters, 293-94
Tanks, 2, 3, 61, 64
British, 223-24, 239, 254, 263
Canadian Ram type of, 253
cost of, 256
criticism of, 222-23
depots for, 254-55
early plans for procurement of, 223-26
educational orders for, 224-25
engines for, 244-46, 253
evaluation of record of, 262-64
German, 222-23, 239-40, 261-63
heavy, 231, 235, 239, 259-62
and howitzer, 75-mm., 81-82
industry-integration committee for, 244
inspection of, 334-36
light, 225-26, 250-52, 262
medium, 226, 228-30, 252-54, 257, 262
production methods for, 241
production of by facility, 242
production totals, 262-63
“remanufacture” of, 258-59
requirements for, 231-39, 469
Soviet, 223, 239, 264
transmissions for, 246-47
“Taxi” numbers, 357, 398
Taylor, Col. Brainerd, 269n
Technical Division, Ordnance, 467
Technical services, 474-75
Technological advances, 133-40
Telescopes, 97. See also Fire control instruments.
Tennessee Eastman Corporation, 136
Termination Accounting Manual, 345
Termination of contracts, 217-20, 339-50, 472
Terre Haute Ordnance Depot, 390
Third Army, 447
Thompson submachine gun, 155, 158, 181
Tiger tank, German, 223, 239, 261, 263
Tilson, Rep. John Q., 359
Time magazine, 4
Time objectives for procurement, 25, 42, 58, 87, 280
Timken-Detroit Axle Company, 246, 270, 273-74, 288
TNT, 11, 12, 32-33, 43, 107, 111, 114, 120, 128, 130-31, 134-36, 138-39, 143, 147, 204, 366-67, 476
Todd and Brown, Inc., 113
Tokarev rifle, 167-68
Tolan Committee, House of Representatives, 32-33, 40, 42
Toledo Core Plant, 196, 221
Toledo Ordnance Depot. See Rossford Ordnance Depot.
Toledo Tank Depot, 254
Toluene, production of, 43, 112, 135
Tooele Ordnance Depot, 378, 381-82
Tool and Equipment Catalog, ASF, 408
TORCH, 401-02
Tractors, 293
Trailmobile Company, 295
Transfer cases, 273-74
Transmissions, 246-47, 297
Transport vehicles. See Trucks.
Transportation Corps, 106, 186, 386, 430-31, 434, 460, 478
Treasury Department, U.S., 357, 386, 419-20
Trojan Powder Company, 112
Troop Basis, 47, 52-55, 59-60, 63-64, 101
Trucks
amphibian (Dukw), 258, 284-86, 295-97, 471
ban on civilian production, 280-81
Brockway 6-ton, 284
Chevrolet 1½-ton, 274, 284
Chrysler ½-ton, 274, 284
Class B (World War I), 267-68, 270
Corbitt 6-ton, 284
during defense period, 270-80
Diamond T, 4-ton, 4-5-ton, 5-6-ton, 284
Dodge 3-ton, 284
Dodge 1½-ton, 271
German army’s standardization of, 269
GMC 2½-ton, 271, 274-75, 471
heavy, 281
heavy-heavy, 275, 286-92
jeep ¼-ton, 276-79, 284, 471
lag in production of, 279-80
Mack 6-ton, 271
maintenance of, 282, 299
production record, 297-99
spare parts for, 413-15, 470
special types of, 292-99
storage of, 385
struggle for standardization of, 266-72
transfer of to Ordnance, 64, 266, 282-84, 383, 399-400, 467-68
White 6-ton, 284
World War I experience with, 265
Yellow (GMC) 2½-ton, 274-75, 284
Truman, Harry S., 102-03, 194, 409
Truman Committee, U.S. Senate, 12, 32, 40, 102, 311-14
Trundle Engineering Company, 331-32
Trundle Report, 331-32
Tschappat, Maj. Gen. William H., 362-63
Twin Cities Ordnance Plant, 195-96, 198, 202-03, 218, 221, 461
Tyson Valley Powder Storage Area, 207
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Umatilla Ordnance Depot, 367-69, 376, 378, 380- 82, 387
Under Secretary of War, 30, 33, 38, 42, 62, 87, 197, 203, 234, 279-80, 305, 478. See also Patterson, Robert P.
Underwood-Elliott-Fisher Company, 174-76
Underwriters’ Laboratories, 132
Union Guardian Building, 283
Union Pacific Railroad, 367
Union Switch and Signal Company, 185
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, 219
United Motors Service Division (GMC), 254
United Nations lists, 308
United Shoe Machinery Corporation, 81, 87
United States Cartridge Company, 194, 204, 208-12
United States Maritime Commission, 119, 250, 287
United States Optical Supply Corporation, 99
United States Public Health Service, 131
United States Rubber Company, 196, 200, 203
United States Standard Commodity Catalog, 409
United States Steel Corporation, 13, 27
United States Steel Export Company, 190
United States Tank Committee, 236-37
Unit Training Center, 112
Utah Ordnance Plant, 195, 202, 218
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Van Deusen, Col. Edwin S., 301
Van Dorn Iron Works, 225
Victory Program, 59-60, 232, 234
Vilter Company, 87
VT fuse, 123-24
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Wabash Ordnance Works, 136, 147
WAC’s, 428
Wagner Act, 277
Wallace, Henry A., 234
Walter Scott and Company, 73, 341
War Aid depots, 381, 383, 385, 390
War Aid Section, Field Service, 430-31
War Department, 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 21, 44, 59-60, 118, 129, 195, 376
and approval of ammunition plants, 195
and combined shops, 460-61
and contract termination, 339, 347-48
and control of ammunition supply, 423, 429, 432
and curtailment of ammunition production, 129, 143
and defense of policy toward small business, 40-41
and demobilization studies, 67
and depot construction policy, 380-82
and IBM machines, 397
and plans for new facilities, 32-33
and plans for storage facilities, 361-63, 383
and plans for tanks, 227
and preventive maintenance, 451-52
and procurement of trucks, 271-72
and sites for depots, 366-68
and spare parts, 311
and theater requirements, 50-51
War Department Budget Advisory Committee, 380
War Department Circular 245, 266
War Department Procurement Review Board, 65- 66, 143-44, 217
War Manpower Commission, 146
War Mobilization, Office of. See Office of War Mobilization.
War Munitions Program (11 Feb 42), 174, 180, 380
War Munitions Program, Overall Requirements for, 60-61
War Office, British, 239
War Plans Division, General Staff, 59
War Production Board, 51, 146, 173, 255, 283-84, 427, 478
and availability of copper, 200
and ban on civilian automotive production, 280- 81
and feasibility dispute, 62-63
history of cited, 58
and production of Dukw’s, 286
and production of heavy trucks, 286-89
and requirements, 45, 58
and rules for wartime construction, 381
War Reserve Equipment, 191
War Shipping Administrator, 431
Ward-La France Company, 273, 288, 294
Warehouses, 379. See also Depots.
Warner, Lt. Col. Walter W., 229
Warren, Lindsay, 347
Washington Evening Star, 165
Washington, President George, 466
Waterbury-Farrel Foundry and Machine Company, 192
Watertown Arsenal, 27, 72, 74-75, 78-79, 85-86, 92-94, 352, 354, 391, 467
Watervliet Arsenal, 27, 72, 74-75, 77-82, 85-87, 89-90, 92-93, 352,.354, 391
Waukesha Motor Company, 288
Weapons of World War II, 465
Welch, Col. Gordon B., 336
Welding of tank armor, 248
Weldon Springs Ordnance Plant, 43, 145
Wells, Brig. Gen. Gordon M., 85-86, 89, 92, 94-95, 404
Wells Board, 404-05
Wesson, Maj. Gen. Charles M., 5, 85-86, 163, 222
and accepted schedules of production, 17
and aircraft guns, 180
and arsenal aid to manufacturers, 74
and Colt Company production problems, 80-81
and District Office display rooms, 41
and eleven o’clock conferences, 5, 477
and establishment of Fire Control Sub-Office, 96
and growth of staff, 28-29
and legal restrictions on procurement, 16-17
and low priorities, 468
and machine tools, 38-39
orders highest priority for spare parts, 304-05
and procurement plans, 12, 15-16
and production of rifles, 159, 163
and production of small arms ammunition, 194- 95, 197-98
and production of tanks, 228-38
and production studies, 21
and rearmament expenditures, 10
and requirements for ammunition, 198-200
and reserve machinery, 159
retirement of, 306
and sites for ammunition plants, 108
and sites for depots, 375-76
and spare parts board, 304
and time needed for production, 21
West Point, arsenal at, 360
Western Cartridge Company, 191-92, 194, 196, 203, 205, 220-21
Western Electric Company, 124
Western Union, 348
Westervelt Board, 68
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 97-98, 124
Wheels, Inc., 308
Wheland Company, 79, 86
“Whirlwind” tank engines, 244
White Motor Car Company, 27, 88, 273, 275, 288, 292-93
Whitney, Eli, 155
Whittemore, Brig. Gen. James M., 386
Whittemore Base Shop, 458
Whittemore motor transport depot, 386
William W. Gherard, S.S., 315
Williams, Maj. Gen. C. C., 35, 65, 322, 351
Williams, Maj. Gen. L. H., 300n
Williamsburg restoration, 113
Willys-Overland Company, 196, 270, 273, 277-79, 295-96
Wilmington, suboffice at, 11, 108
Winchester Repeating Arms Company, 20, 157-58, 163, 167, 169-70, 173-74, 191, 218-19, 221
Wingate Ordnance Depot, 353, 376, 378, 381, 387
Winter-Weiss Company, 295
Witter, Col. Dean, 346
Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant, 108, 113, 370
Wood, Brig. Gen. Robert E., 402
Wood, Brig. Gen. Walter A., Jr., 54
Wood Newspaper Machinery Corporation, 73
Wood pulp, 136-37
Woods, S. A., Company, 5
Worthington Pump Company, 79
Wreckers, heavy truck, 293-95
Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 227, 244
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Yellow Truck and Coach Company, 273-75, 285-86
York Arsenal (Canada), 221
York Safe and Lock Company, 77-79, 81, 87
Young, Owen D., 13
Young, Col. William C., 439
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Zenith Carburetor Company, 314
Zenith Radio Corporation, 124