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HY 303 - Warfare and Modern Society
Wayne E. Sirmon, M.A.Ed.History Department
University of South Alabama
The Arsenal of Democracy Logistics During World War Two
The Arsenal of Democracy Logistics During World War Two
Material & design, development, acquisition
Supplies storage, distribution, maintenance, evacuation
Personnel movement, evacuation, hospitalization
Facilities construction, maintenance, operation
Services acquisition, furnishing
Classes of Supply
Combat vs. Support “Tooth to Tail” percentage of Army assigned to service units (excluding Air Corps)
End of WWI 34%1939 11%1941 33%1943 52%1945 53%
Mobile’s War Effort
Mobile’s War Effort
USS Fort Marion (LSD-22) Launched, 22 May 1945, at Gulf Shipbuilding Corp, Chickasaw, AL
293020
1021
MinesweepersC-2 Cargo ShipsLiberty ShipsT-2 TankersLanding Ship Dock
Mobile’s War Effort
293020
1021
MinesweepersC-2 Cargo ShipsLiberty ShipsT-2 TankersLanding Ship Dock
SS J.L.M. Curry (hull #1)Delivered 15 May 1942
11 kts. 9,140 tons of cargo
Military Production Allies USA Germany
Tanks 227,235 88,410 46,857
Artillery 914,682 257,390 159,147
Machineguns 4,744,484 2,679,840 674,280
Trucks 3,060,354 2,382,311 345,914
Aircraft 633,072 324,750 189,307
Crude Oil (millions of tons)
1,043 833 62
Naval Construction
USA UK USSR Italy Japan Germany
Carriers 22 14 - - 16 -
Escort Carriers 141 - - - - -
Battleships 8 5 - 3 2 2
Cruisers 48 32 2 6 9 -
Destroyers 349 240 25 6 63 17
Convoy Escorts 420 413/191* - - - 23
Submarines 422 167 52 28 167 1,337
Merchant (x 1,000 tons)
33,993 6,379 /
6,445**
- 470 4,152 -
* Canada** Canada & Commonwealth
U.S. Ammunition Output
Aircraft Bombs 531,000,000 tons
Depth Charges 529,000
Torpedoes 54,000
Artillery rounds 47,000,000 tons
Small arms rounds 44,000,000,000
Women’s UniformsWhy men should not go shopping
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
WAAC- failed to make models for different sizes
- use men’s wear manufacturers
- design flaws: padded shoulders, flat chested, skirts narrow in hips, color of skirts and jackets mis-matched
- low-heeled oxfords, men’s shirts and neckties give an unfeminine appearance
Women’s UniformsWhy men should not go shopping
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service
WAVES-designed by a well known women’s fashion designer and contracted with women’s fashion industry
- WAVES revolt over hose: CNO impressed with WRNS in black stockings. American women objected to daytime wear
- relented when told that dye was also used to make gunpowder
The Real Purpose of D-Day
Manufacture
Global Delivery
Tactical Supply
The direct military objective of Overlord was neither strategic not tactical, but logistical. The primary objective of the plan read: “To secure a lodgement on the continent from which further offensive operations can be developed.”
Moving supplies to the front
Manufacture
Global Delivery
Tactical Supply
"My men can eat their belts," he [Patton] was overhead telling Ike at a meeting on 2 September, "but my tanks gotta have gas.“
Moving supplies to the front
Red Ball Express
6,000 Trucks
412,000 tons of supplies between Aug 25-Nov 16 1944
3rd Army averaged using 380,000 gallons of gasoline per day.
By Nov. the Red Ball consumed 300,000 gallons/day
Repair or Replace
3rd Armored Division
232 Sherman medium tanks
Gas mileage 1mpg on road .5 mpg cross-country
In 10 months of combat 648 Sherman tanks were totally destroyed.
1,100 need repair (700 combat related)
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