page_title: Army-Navy "E" Award
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Army-Navy "E" Award / History
context_page_description: The Army-Navy "E" Award was an honor presented to companies during World War II whose production facilities achieved "Excellence in Production" of war equipment. The award was also known as the Army-Navy Production Award. The award was created to encourage industrial mobilization and production of war time materials. By war's end, the award had been earned by only 5% of the more than 85,000 companies involved in producing materials for the U.S. military's war effort.
context_section_description: An earlier award, the Navy "E" Award, had been created in 1906 during Theodore Roosevelt's administration. By the end of World War I, the Navy "E" Award had been joined by the Army "A" Award and the Army-Navy Munitions Board "Star".
  These three separate awards continued until seven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor had pulled the United States into World War II.  In July 1942, the War Department proclaimed that the new Army-Navy "E" Award would merge the Navy "E", Army "A" and Army-Navy Munitions Board "Star" into a single, service-wide award.
caption: For Excellence in production, Army Navy "E", Let's Keep It Flying!
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