The Ordnance Department: Planning Munitions for War (United States Army in World War II: The Technical Services, Ordnance Department Volume 1)

xviii, 542 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes 14 tables, 18 charts, 54 illustrations, bibliographical note, glossary, and index. "... includes background material, reaching from the early nineteenth century to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 (Chs. I-III). The research and development programs, 1919 to 1939, receive special attention because of their direct effect upon much of the later work." Also discussed are recruitment and training, research and development, ground and air equipment, rockets, bombs, guns, and the shortage of strategically important raw materials, etc. (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, pp. 113-4).