CONTENTS: Acknowledgments Introduction Mobilization Activities Before Pearl Harbor Day Education for Mobilization Interwar Planning for Industrial Mobilization Mobilizing for War: 1939 to 1941 The War Production Board The Controlled Materials Plan The Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion U.S. Production in World War II Balancing Military and Civilian Needs Overcoming Raw Material Scarcities Maritime Construction People Mobilization: "Rosie the Riveter" Conclusions Appendix A: Production of Selected Munitions Items Appendix B: The War Agencies of the Executive Branch of the Federal...
CONTENTS: Acknowledgments Introduction Mobilization Activities Before Pearl Harbor Day Education for Mobilization Interwar Planning for Industrial Mob...
Alan L. Gropman Raymond B. Furlong Office of Air Force History
Originally published in 1976. This narrative describes the evacuation of more than 1,400 American soldiers, Marines, and airmen, and Vietnamese men, women, and children from the Kham Duc Special Forces camp in southern I Corps on 12 May 1968. It treats the geographical and topographical setting, the threat to the camp posed by two regiments of the North Vietnamese Army, and the danger to the camp and its inhabitants from the communist seizure of all the high ground around the camp. The monograph devotes individual chapters to the US Army and Marine helicopter rescue efforts, tactical air...
Originally published in 1976. This narrative describes the evacuation of more than 1,400 American soldiers, Marines, and airmen, and Vietnamese men, w...
FROM THE FORWARD: This book describes the struggle to desegregate the post-World War II U.S. Army Air Forces and its successor, the U.S. Air Force, and the remarkable advances made during the next two decades to end racial segregation and move towards equality of treatment of Negro airmen. The author, Lt. Col. Alan L. Gropman, a former Instructor of History at the U.S. Air Force Academy, received his doctorate degree from Tufts University. His dissertation served as the basis for this volume. In it, the author describes the fight to end segregation with the Air Force following President Harry...
FROM THE FORWARD: This book describes the struggle to desegregate the post-World War II U.S. Army Air Forces and its successor, the U.S. Air Force, an...
This book analyzes the United States industry in World War II. It talks about how the industry was mobilized in time of war and to what extent is the history myth or reality. It shows how the industry was transformed into something that couple produce weapons and supplies for war rapidly.
This book analyzes the United States industry in World War II. It talks about how the industry was mobilized in time of war and to what extent is the ...
