Army Service Forces depots

With the activation of the new depots the CWS depot system consisted of five branch depots—Eastern (Edgewood), Gulf (Huntsville), Midwest (Pine Bluff), Indianapolis, and Deseret—and live chemical sections of Army Service Forces depots—Atlanta, Memphis, New Cumberland, San Antonio, and Utah. The missions of these installations varied considerably. The Indianapolis Depot became in effect (and eventually in name) a national control point for CWS spare parts. The other branch depots had in common a responsibility for reserve storage of CWS gen-... 

Memo, Dir of Opns ASF for Chiefs of Tech Services, 13 Jul 43, sub Depot Stock Levels. Copy in ICAF R 116, Jan 48. (2) Logistics in World War II, Final Report of the Army Service Forces, p, 80. 

Three principal types of air chemical service organizations were determined upon in 1942 as necessary to support chemical operations of the Army Air Forces. These were chemical companies, air operations depot companies, aviation and maintenance companies, aviation. The air operations company was the principal air chemical service unit. Its function was to handle, under operational and combat conditions, liquid toxic or smoke agents used by the type of bombardment aviation which it served. The company included 4 officers and 130 enlisted men. It consisted of a distributing point section and four operating platoons, the latter capable of operating independently on the basis of one platoon per squadron. The companies were distinctively designated to indicate the type of air unit that served (M H) for medium or heavy bombardment, (L) for light bombardment, and (D) for dive bombardment. The air operations company was not trained to handle arsenal-filled gas bombs or incendiaries. ... 

The Utah State Plan applies to all public and private sector places of employment in the State, with the exception of Federal employees, the United States Postal Service (USPS), private sector maritime. Hill Air Force Base, Tooele Army Depot which includes the Tooele Chemical Demilitarization Facility, and certain agricultural related operations (field sanitation and temporary labor camps), which are subject to Federal OSHA jurisdiction. See 29 CFR 1952.115. 

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