The Ordnance Department: Procurement and Supply (United States Army in World War II: The Technical Services, Ordnance Department Volume 2)

xix, 504 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes 24 tables, 2 charts, 52 illustrations, bibliographical note, glossary, and index. "This volume fits the activities of the Ordnance Department into the larger pictures of procurement and supply... The story focuses on the particular items that ordnance officers were tasked to procure and supply: artillery and small arms, and ammunition for both; fire-control instruments; combat vehicles, including the tank; the transport vehicles that put the Army and its supplies on motor-driven wheels; and spare parts and maintenance for all of these." (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, pp. 114-5).