Arming the nation for war [electronic resource] : mobilization, supply, and the American war effort in World War II / Robert P. Patterson ; edited by Brian Waddell ; with a foreword by Robert M. Morgenthau.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patterson, Robert Porter, 1891-1952
Other Authors: Waddell, Brian (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Legacies of war
Subjects:
Patterson, Robert Porter, > 1891-1952.
United States. > War Department > Procurement.
Industrial mobilization > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Logistics > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Economic aspects > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States.
Industrial mobilization > United States > Evaluation.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
United States > Armed Forces > Supplies and stores > Management.
Genre:
Evaluation.
Personal narratives, American.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2014 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
History Reference eBook Collection: 2014 (EBSCO)
EBSCO eBooks: 2014 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2014 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Mobilization, supply, and the American war effort in World War II
Arming the Nation for War: Mobilization, Supply, and the American War Effort in World War II
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: Robert Porter Patterson and World War II
  • A nation without arms
  • The slow beginning
  • Airplanes take five years
  • A changing nation
  • Altitudinal goals
  • An offensive begins
  • Alaska, Australia, the Persian Gulf
  • Assault in force
  • The end in Europe
  • Concentration east
  • Epilogue: industry, science, war, and the future.