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An army officer hoists the red and blue E Award pennant up the flagpole. The Army-Navy "E" Award was an honor presented to companies and organizations during World War II whose production facilities achieved "Excellence in Production" ("E") of war equipment. The award was also known as the Army-Navy Production Award.
Military production during World War II was the production or mobilization of arms, ammunition, personnel and financing by the belligerents of the war, from the occupation of Austria in early 1938 to the surrender and occupation of Japan in late 1945.
A war economy or wartime economy is the set of preparations undertaken by a modern state to mobilize its economy for war production. Philippe Le Billon describes a war economy as a "system of producing, mobilizing and allocating resources to sustain the violence."
The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it in January 1942, with Executive Order 9024. [1] The WPB replaced the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board and the Office of Production Management. [2]
Munitions production peaked in the last quarter of 1943, [85] after a War Department Procurement Review Board headed by Major General Frank R. McCoy had recommended cuts in production on the grounds that excessive stocks had been built up in the United States and overseas theaters.
Regardless, the US must now find a way to stimulate demand if it wants to boost production. "Until the U.S. military mainstreams operational concepts that demand large numbers of drones ...
By late 1944, almost the entire German economy was dedicated to military production. The result was a dramatic rise in military production, with an increase by 2 to 3 times of vital goods like tanks and aircraft, despite the intensifying Allied air campaign and the loss of territory and factories.
Trump first invoked the Defense Production Act on March 27, more than a week after first saying he would. The administration has said the act will be used to ramp up coronavirus testing, but Trump ...