The Ordnance Department
Subtitle: on beachhead and battlefront
By: by Lida Mayo
Contributors: Center of Military History
Series: United States Army in World War II: The technical services; CMH pub -- 10-11; United States Army in World War II; CMH pub -- 10-11.
Publisher: Center of Military History, U.S. Army; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9780160841781
Subjects: History; World War, 1939-1945; United States. Army. Ordnance Department; United States; United States. Army. Ordnance Dept.; United States. Army. Ordnance Dept; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924
Other titles: On beachhead and battlefront
Notes: "First printed 1968"--Title page verso.

Shipping list no.: 2010-0095-P.

Reprint. Originally published: Washington : Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Army, 1968. (United States Army in World War II. The technical services).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I.; title: The Military missions --; title: The Special Observer Group --; title: Ordnance plans for Iceland --; title: The Lend-lease missions to the Middle East and China --; title: Initiation into coalition warfare -- -- II.; title: Middle East kaleidoscope --; title: The OMET's --; title: Militarization --; title: The Desert proving ground --; title: Applying lessons -- -- III.; title: Early arrivals in Australia --; title: The Pensacola convoy --; title: Last-ditch efforts to aid MacArthur --; title: Planning the American base --; title: Port operations -- -- IV.; title: The Base in Australia --; title: Rounding up weapons and ammunition --; title: Ship arming --; title: Ordnance forces spread thin --; title: Geelong and the Ordnance Service Centers --; title: Working with the Australians --; title: USAAS ordnance --; title: Midsummer 1942 : new responsibilities --; title: Preparations to support the move northward --; title: Responsibility for motor vehicles -- -- V.; title: Supporting the Papua Campaign --; title: The Ordnance officer arrives at Port Moresby --; title: The Crisis in mid-September --; title: The Sea route to Buna --; title: The Attack begins -- and stalls --; title: I Corps takes over --; title: The Foreward bases --; title: Captured Japanese matérial -- -- "A; title: Poor man's war" -- -- VI.; title: The Base in the British Isles --; title: Ordnance troops in Magnet --; title: Planning for Bolero --; title: Preparations for Torch -- -- VII.; title: Oran and the Provisional Ordnance Group --; title: Tactical plans --; title: Ordnance service : the group concept --; title: The Landing at Oran --; title: The Provisional Ordnance Group --; title: The Move to Northern Tunisia --; title: Planing for Central Tunisia -- -- VIII.; title: With II Corps in Tunisia --; title: The Supply crisis --; title: "Miracles of maintenance" --; title: Niblo leaves II Corps --; title: Supporting the thrust through Gafsa --; title: The March to Bizerte -- -- "The; title: End of the beginning" -- -- IX.; title: The Short campaign in Sicily --; title: Plans for Husky --; title: New matérial --; title: The Invasion fleets depart --; title: The Landings --; title: Colonel Nixon's problems -- -- "A; title: Black eye on ordnance" --; title: The Evidence at the end -- -- X.; title: Salerno and the growth of Fifth Army Ordnance Service --; title: Niblo's group organization --; title: "Hell in the dunes" --; title: "Uninterrupted" ordnance service --; title: The Search for better organization.; title: XI.; title: Anzio and artillery --; title: The Ammunition dumps --; title: Anzio Annie and the clamor for heavier artillery --; title: The 240-mm. howitzer and the 8-inch gun --; title: "Balanced artillery firepower" -- -- XII.; title: Rome and "the forgotten front" --; title: The Allies enter Rome -- -- "The; title: Forgotten front" --; title: Lessons of the Mediterranean campaigns -- -- XIII.; title: Arming for the grand campaign --; title: New methods of supply --; title: Motor vehicle assembly --; title: Preparations for a short sea voyage --; title: Bomb disposal --; title: The Ordnance plan for Neptune -- -- "The; title: Best-equipped fighting force" -- -- XIV.; title: The Far shore of Normandy --; title: Omaha Beach --; title: Utah Beach --; title: Frustrations in the hedgerows --; title: Expansion after Cobra : Third Army -- -- XV.; title: The Race across France --; title: The Campaign in Brittany --; title: To the Seine and beyond : First Army Ordnance --; title: Third Army Ordnance in the dash to the Moselle --; title: Seventh Army in Southern France -- -- XVI.; title: At the Siegfried Line in Belgium --; title: The Supply famine --; title: First Army improvises --; title: Frustrations at the ports and depots --; title: The Battle of the Ardennes --; title: Bastogne and Third Army Ordnance -- -- XVII.; title: Lessons of the Roer and the Ardennes --; title: Ninth Army Ordnance --; title: The Tank duels on the Roer Plain --; title: Attempts to provide a better tank --; title: The Zebra mission of February 1945 -- -- XVIII.; title: Victory in Germany --; title: Supplies for the last campaign --; title: Across the Rhine --; title: Captured enemy matérial --; title: Ordnance technical intelligence --; title: After V-E Day.; title: XIX.; title: From Papua to Morotai --; title: Developing the bases --; title: New weapons for jungle warfare --; title: The Move northward begins with dexterity --; title: Support of Brewer in the Admiralties --; title: Hollandia and Aitape --; title: The Geelvink Bay operations : Wakde, Biak, Noemfoor --; title: The Sansapor area in the Vogelkop --; title: Morotai -- -- XX.; title: The Philippines : Leyte --; title: The Ordnance Navy : the shop and depot barges --; title: Planning for Leyte --; title: A-Day and after --; title: The Costly base at Leyte --; title: Eighth Army Ordnance arrives --; title: Success on Mindoro -- -- XXI.; title: The Philippines : Luzon --; title: Ordnance plans for Luzon --; title: Supporting the Lingayen landings --; title: The Advance inland --; title: Clearing the Visayan passages -- -- XXII.; title: The Philippines : the southern islands --; title: Palawan and Zamboanga --; title: The Central Visayan Islands --; title: Mindanao -- -- XXIII.; title: Boldly aiming at Okinawa --; title: A Strongly fortified island --; title: The Advance in the Central Pacific --; title: The Hawaiian base --; title: Tenth Army plans and preparations --; title: The Landings on Kerama Retto -- -- XXIV.; title: Crescendo on Okinawa --; title: The Landings on Hagushi --; title: Supporting the assault on the Shuri Defenses --; title: Siege warfare with a difference : the cave positions --; title: The Ordnance build-up in the mud --; title: Supply by water --; title: Bloody finale --; title: Preparing for Japan -- -- XXV.; title: The Guns fall silent -- -- Bibliographical note -- Glossary; title: Code names --; title: Basic military symbols ---- Index.