Arming the nation for war
Subtitle: mobilization, supply, and the American war effort in World War II
By: Robert P. Patterson ; edited by Brian Waddell ; with a foreword by Robert M. Morgenthau
Contributors: Waddell, Brian, editor
Edition: First edition.
Series: Legacies of war
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781572338722
Subjects: Industrial mobilization; History; World War, 1939-1945; Logistics; Armed Forces; Supplies and stores; Management; Procurement; Evaluation; American Personal narratives; United States. War Department; United States
Other titles: Mobilization, supply, and the American war effort in World War II
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Robert Porter Patterson and World War II; title: A nation without arms; title: The slow beginning; title: Airplanes take five years; title: A changing nation; title: Altitudinal goals; title: An offensive begins; title: Alaska, Australia, the Persian Gulf; title: Assault in force; title: The end in Europe; title: Concentration east; title: Epilogue: industry, science, war, and the future.