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

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14 May 1942 Sunflower Ord. Works – DeSoto, KS Smokeless Powder, Rolled Hercules Powder Co. Strip & Extruded Double Base Powder, Certain Stick Powders, Oleum Fuzes, Boosters – U.S. Rubber Co. Converted to .50 cal ammo .30 cal. ball, .50 cal. Federal Cartridge Co. 18 Nov 1943 Scioto Ord. Plant – Marion, OH 14 July 1941 Twin Cities Ord. Plant – New Brighton, MS 30 July 1942 Utah Ord. Plant – Salt .30 & .50 cal. ammo Remington Arms Co. Lake City, UT 7 March 1942 Vigo Ord Plant – Terre LAP Concan Ord. Co. Inc Haute, IN Not Provided Virginia Ord. Works – TNT Not Provided Glen Wilton, VA 19 August 1941 Volunteer Ord. Works – TNT, Nitric Acid, Oleum, Hercules Powder Co. Chattanooga, TN Sellite 12 Dec 1941 Wabash River Ord. Works RDX & explosives E.I. Dupont de Memours & Co. Military Explosives Division 25 Oct 41 Weldon Springs Ord. Works - Weldon Springs, MO 29 Jan 1942 West Virginia Ord. Works- Point Pleasant, WV 31 Dec 40 Wolf Creek Ord. Plant – Milan, TN AMMO CONTAINER 22 Oct 1941 Ammo Container Corp. – Chicago, IL 18 Oct 1941 Feltex Corp. – Fiber Container Corp. – Rock Island, IL 18 Oct 1941 Sefton Fiber Can Co. – Memphis, TN DEPOTS 6 Sep 1943 Anniston Ord. Depot – Anniston AL 23 Sept 43 Blue Grass Ord. Depot – Richmond, KY 11 Aug 1943 Lordstown Ord. Depot – Warren, OH 31 Dec 40 Milan Ord. Depot – Milan, TN 28 Aug 40 Portage Ord. Depot – Wayland, OH 12 Aug 1943 Rossford Ord. Depot – Toledo, OH TNT, DNT TNT, Comp B, C-2, C-3 Shells, Bombs, Bomb Clusters, Tracer, Rocket, Fuzes, Tetryl Pellet FACILITIES Ammo Containers Ammo Containers Ammo containers Receipt, Storage & Issue of Ord. Materiel Receipt, Storage & Issue of Ord. Materiel Receipt, Storage & Issue of Ord. Materiel Receipt, Storage & Issue of Ord. Materiel Receipt, Storage & Issue of Ord. Materiel Receipt, Storage & Issue of Ord. Materiel Atlas Powder Co. General Chemical Defense Co. Proctor & Gamble Corp. American Can Co. Feltex Corp. Reynolds Metals Co. Anniston Whae. Corp Blue Grass Ord. Depot Inc Lordstown Depot Mgt. Inc. Proctor & Gamble Atlas Powder Co. Harvester War Depot, Inc. 70
APPENDIX B WWII ERA GOVERNMENT OWNED AMMUNITION INDUSTRIAL BASE 182 182 Hammond, 5. This diagram reflects WWII era LAP, propellant, explosive and chemical facilities owned by the War Department. The chart was created to show what facilities were operating or could be utilized for supplying 1-7 million man Army forces. The 12 small arms plants operating during WWII are not included in this chart but were also War Department assets. 71
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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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expansion set by Washington. He was
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Page 23 and 24: could be sold on the open market. T
Page 25 and 26: for the GOCO inactive plants to gai
Page 27 and 28: was a spike in expenditures after a
Page 29 and 30: Date Rounds 30 Nov 1917 156M 31 Jan
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Page 35 and 36: 1951 the plants produced 50K tons o
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Page 41 and 42: subject to special control. Numerou
Page 43 and 44: functions. Within the production ba
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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
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Page 59 and 60: Base Assessment Tool (IBAT). The SM
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