History of the Ammunition Industrial Base - JMC - U.S. Army

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Gadsden, AL 1 May 1942 Gopher Ord. Works – Rosemont, MN 4 Feb 1942 Green River Ord. Plant – Dixon, IL 16 April 1942 Gulf Ord. Plant – Aberdeen, MS 12 June 1942 Holston Ord. Works – Kingsport, TN 3 Jan 1941 Hooser Ord. Plant – Charlestown, IN 21 Aug 1941 Illinois Ord. Plant – Carbondale, IL 19 July 1940 Indiana Ord. Works – Charlestown, IN 6 Nov. 1940 Iowa Ord. Plant – Burlington, IA 18 Sept. 1941 Jayhawk Ord. Plant – Baxter Springs, KS 13 Sept. 1940 Kankakee Ord. Works – Joliet, IL 9 Aug. 1941 Kansas Ord. Plant – Parsons, KS 3 March 1942 Kentucky Ord. Works – Paducah, KY 8 Dec. 1941 Keystone Ord. Works – Geneva, PA 8 Nov. 1940 Kingsbury Ord. Plant – Le Porte, In 5 Jan. 1942 Kings Mills Ord. Plant – Warren County, OH 20 Nov 1940 Lake City Ord. Plant – Independence, MO 29 Dec 1941 Lake Ontario Ord Works – Youngstown, NY 22 Dec 1941 Longhorn Ord. Works – Marshall TX 20 July 1941 Lone Star Ord Plant – Texarkana TX 10 July 1941 Louisiana Ord. Plant – Shreveport, LA Machining for 105mm shells Smokeless Pwdr, Oleum Shells, Grenades, bombs, Rockets, and fuze loading 20mm, 40mm, and 57mm Ammo, 4.5 inch H.E., rockets, tracers and fuzes RDX, Comp. B Bag & Igniter Loading Shells & Bombs Smokeless Powder, DMA, DPA Shells, Mines, Bombs, Fuzes, Det. Boosters, Primers, TNT Anhydrous Ammonia, Ammonia Nitrate TNT, DNT & Tetryl, Lead Azide, Oleum, TNT Blocks Shell Loading, Boosters, Propellant charges TNT, Oleum TNT, Oleum Shells, Mines, Fuzes, Canister, Bomb Cluster, Armor Piercing Ammo, Grenades, Anti-Personnel Mines, 20mm, 37mm, 40mm, 60mm, 75mm, 3 Inch and 105mm ammo Co. E.I. Dupont de Memours & Co. Military Explosives Division Stewart Warner Corp. Proctor and Gamble Tennessee Eastman Corporation Goodyear Engineering Corporation Sherwin-Williams Defense Corp. E.I. Dupont de Memours & Co. Military Explosives Division Day & Zimmerman, Inc. Military Chemical Works E.I. Dupont de Memours & Co. Military Explosives Division J.M. Service Corporation Atlas Powder Co. Fracer Bruce Engineering Co. Inc. Todd & Brown Inc. .30 cal carbine ammo Remington Arms Co. .30 ball, AP, Tracer & .50 cal AP, Tracers, and incendiary, .30 cal carbine, .30 carbine grenade TNT TNT Loading Plant – Artillery shells, bombs, fuzes, boosters and tracers Ammo AP, Shells, 1000 lb pounds, grenades, rifle grenades, ammonium nitrate, boosters, fuzes, Remington Arms Co. Chemical Construction Corporation Monsanto Chemical Corp Lone Star Defense Corp. (BF Good Rich Corp) Silas Mason Co. 68
15 July 1941 Maumelle Ord. Works – Little Rock, AK 27 March 1942 Lowell Ord Plant – Lowell MA 17 Aug 1942 Milwaukee Ord Plant – Milwaukee, WI 4 Aug 1941 Mississippi Ord. Plant – Flora, MS Ammonium Picrate .50 AP Ammo, brass case, .50 cal AP Steel case, & .50 ball Cities Service Defense Corp. Remington Arms Co. .50 cal U.S. Rubber Co. Planned to make propellant bags for artillery - Placed on standby Anhydrous Ammonia 19 Aug 1941 Missouri Ord. Works – Louisiana, MO 29 Nov 1940 Morgantown Ord. Works Anhydrous Ammonia, Hexamine, Formaldehyde and Methanol 12 Dec. 1941 Nebraska Ord. Plant – Fremont, NE 21 Dec 1941 New River Ord. Plant – Pulaski, VA 23 March 1942 New York Ord. Works – Baldwinsville, NY 15 Feb. 1941 Ohio River Ord. Works – Henderson, KY 13 Sept. 1941 Oklahoma Ord. Works - Pryor, OK 25 Nov. 1941 Ozark Ord. Works - El Dorado, Arkansas 10 March 1942 Pantex Ordnance Plant – Amarillo, TX 31 Dec. 1942 Plub Brook Ord. Works, - Sandusky, OH 7 Jan 1942 Pennsylvania Ord. Works – Williamsport, PA 10 April 1942 Pilgrim Ord. Works – West Hanover, MA 16 Aug 1940 Radford Ord. Works – Radford VA Aug 1940 Ravenna Ord. Plant – Apco, OH Redstone Arsenal - Huntsville, AL 20 Feb 1942 Sangamon Ord. Plant- Springfield IL 5 Dec 1940 St. Louis Ord. Plant - St. Louis, MO Bombs, boosters, & Ammonium nitrate Powder Bag Loading, & Special Propellant Charge Loading Plant Standby Anhydrous Ammonia Smokeless Powder, ACP, NAC, SAC, DPA, TNT, Tetryl, TNT Demo blocks Anhydrous Ammonia & Ammonium Nitrate 250 LB Bombs, 500 lb. G.P. bombs, 23 lb. Fragmentation bomb, 105mm howitzer shells, ammonium nitrate boosters TNT, NDT, Pentolite TNT Magnesium Metal Powder Nitrocellulose Powder, pentolite, TNT Shells, Boosters, Primers, Loading bombs, ammonium nitrate, renovating ammo from outside sources Load and assembly <strong>of</strong> 75, 81, 105 and 155 mm gas and smoke shells, demo blocks, Shells, Fuzes, Boosters General Tire Engineering Co. Hercules Powder Co. E.I. Dupont de Memours & Co. Military Explosives Division Nebraska Defense Corp. Hercules Powder Co. National Aniline Defense Corp. Atmospheric Nitrogen Corp. E.I. Dupont de Memours & Co. Military Explosives Division Lion Chemical Corp. Certain-Teed Products Corp. Trojan Powder Co. U.S. Rubber Co. National Fireworks Inc. Hercules Powder Co. Atlas Powder Co. Ordnance Dept. Remington Rand Corp. .30 and .50 cal ammo U.S. Cartridge Co. 69
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History of the Ammunition Industria
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infrastructure was just beginning t
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By the end of the war the War Indus
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planning. Responsibility for procur
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Despite shortfalls, when the threat
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companies in the U.S. with experien
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were made in the reverse nitration
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Page 27 and 28: was a spike in expenditures after a
Page 29 and 30: Date Rounds 30 Nov 1917 156M 31 Jan
Page 31 and 32: The computation of ammunition requi
Page 33 and 34: management. Because of the lack of
Page 35 and 36: 1951 the plants produced 50K tons o
Page 37 and 38: theater levels but the overall ammu
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Page 41 and 42: subject to special control. Numerou
Page 43 and 44: functions. Within the production ba
Page 45 and 46: of the Army depot system became acu
Page 47 and 48: as an organization separate from PE
Page 49 and 50: Studying the Industrial Base throug
Page 51 and 52: Ammunition and to use multi-year mo
Page 53 and 54: costs. There was minimal incentive
Page 55 and 56: At the end of the Cold War, the mun
Page 57 and 58: After September 2001, DA decision m
Page 59 and 60: Base Assessment Tool (IBAT). The SM
Page 61 and 62: acquisition strategies across famil
Page 63 and 64: for a number of years. After produc
Page 65 and 66: Tooele Army Depot, Tooele, Utah Red
Page 67: APPENDIX A - WWII AMMUNITION PLANTS
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Page 73 and 74: 2007 GOVERNMENT OWNED AMMUNITION IN
Page 75 and 76: Bibliography Bacevich, A.J. The Pen
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