Arming the nation for war [electronic resource] : mobilization, supply, and the American war effort in World War II / Robert P. Patterson ; edited by Brian Waddell ; with a remembrance by Robert M. Morgenthau.
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TextSeries: Legacies of war | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2014] 2015)Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN: - 9781621900825
- 1621900827
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
- Industrial mobilization -- United States -- Evaluation
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Logistics -- United States
- Industrial mobilization -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Supplies and stores -- Management
- United States. War Department -- Procurement
- Patterson, Robert Porter, 1891-1952
- 940.54/1273 23
- D769.2 .P38 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Robert Porter Patterson and World War II -- A nation without arms -- The slow beginning -- Airplanes take five years -- A changing nation -- Altitudinal goals -- An offensive begins -- Alaska, Australia, the Persian Gulf -- Assault in force -- The end in Europe -- Concentration east -- Epilogue: industry, science, war, and the future.
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