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The Transportation Corps: Movements, Training, and Supply

by Chester Wardlow
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781514833568
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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  • Pages: 584
  • Original Price: USD 31.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 998 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General and Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General

The history of World War II is making increasingly clear the central fact that the tightest rein on the military effort of the United States in that war was imposed by transportation. As long as this nation fights overseas the same situation is likely to reoccur-a prospect that gives a special importance to the exposition of the subject in this series. The Army promptly recognized the importance of transportation when, as in World War I, it centralized its supervision of this branch of its vast logistical effort in a Chief of Transportation and created (in July 1942) a Transportation Corps. The Army did not, and could not, control all the factors that entered into the movement of its men, munitions, and supplies. The larger story the reader must seek elsewhere- in the two volumes on Global Logistics and Strategy and in the theater volumes of the U.S. ARMY IN WORLD WAR IL Here the story is told from the records and point of view of the Army's Chief of Transportation, Maj. Gen. Charles P. Gross. In this volume, the second in the group of three Transportation Corps volumes, Mr. Wardlow passes to the policies and methods adopted to move men and matériel within the continental United States and out to theaters of operations-the core of General Gross's mission-and to provide the Transportation Corps' quota of equipment and trained soldiers necessary to accomplish its overseas mission.

Mr. Chester Wardlow was pursuing graduate studies in Political Science at the University of Chicago when the United States entered World War I. In 1918, employed by the Shipping Board, he went overseas with the mission that became the American Section of the Allied Maritime Transport Council. From 1921 until 1935 he was connected with private shipping organizations. During the period 1935-41 he held the office of Sole Arbiter of the Trans-Atlantic Passenger Conference. In 1941 Mr. Wardlow was employed as Coordinator of Transportation for the Army and remained in that position until 1946. From 1946 until his retirement in 1954 he was the Chief Historian of the Transportation Corps. He is the author of the first volume of the Transportation Corps subseries in the U.S. ARMY IN WORLD WAR II, published in 1951.

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