The Ordnance Department : planning munitions for war / by Constance McLaughlin Green, Harry C. Thomson, and Peter C. Roots.

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The U.S. Army fought World War II with matériel much of which was developed in the decade prior to our entry, particularly in the period following the German blitz in Poland. Our efforts to develop munitions to the point where our armies could cope on equal terms with those of potential enemies are...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:United States Army in World War II. Technical services.
Main Author: Green, Constance McLaughlin, 1897-1975
Corporate Author: United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History
Other Authors: Thomson, Harry C., 1912-
Roots, Peter C.
Language:English
Published: Washington : Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Printing Office, 1955.
Series:United States Army in World War II. Technical services.
Subjects:
United States. > Army. > Ordnance Department > History.
United States. > Army > Ordnance and ordnance stores.
United States. > Army > Supplies and stores.
United States. > Army > Equipment.
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Histoire des unités > États-Unis.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > États-Unis.
United States. > Army.
United States. > Army. > Ordnance Department.
Armed Forces > Equipment and supplies.
Armed Forces > Ordnance and ordnance stores.
Armed Forces > Supplies and stores.
Regimental histories.
United States.
1939-1945
Government publications
History.
Government publications.
Genre:
Government publications
History.
Government publications.
Physical Description:xviii, 542 pages : illustrations, charts, portraits ; 26 cm
Variant Title:
Planning munitions for war
Format: Government Document Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: The ordnance task in World War II
  • Origins and growth to 1919
  • The Ordnance Department, 1919-40
  • Finances and the effects of lend-lease
  • Organization of the Ordnance Department, 1940-45
  • Military personnel and training
  • Civilian personnel and training
  • Research and development, 1919-40
  • Wartime organization and procedures in research and development
  • Competition and collaboration with foreign designers
  • The search for greater mobility in ground warfare
  • The search for increased fire power in ground warfare: Launchers and fire control
  • The search for increased fire power: Ammunition
  • The development of better protection
  • Antiaircraft defense: Ground-to-air weapons
  • Aircraft armament: Weapons for air-to-air combat
  • Aircraft armament: Guns and rockets for air-to-ground attack
  • Bombs
  • Conservation of materials
  • Unresolved problems of research and development.