Chemical Advisory Committee

Members of the Chemical Advisory Committee receiving Army Certificates of Appreciation from Brig. Gen, Alden H. Waitt, November 1945- Prom left (front) Charles S. Munson, Warren N. Watson, James W. McLaughlin, Harry L. Derby, General Waitt, Col. Harry A. Kuhn. From left (back) George W. Merck, Lammot 

who was also the civilian chief of the New York Chemical Procurement District, had suggested that the district advisory committee be designated the Chemical Advisory Committee to the Army and Navy Munitions Board. This suggestion was adopted and from early 1939 until after the close of World War II the committee, whose members were leading representatives of the chemical industry, met monthly in Washington or New York. Liaison officers from the Army and Navy Munitions Board, the Ordnance Department, and the CWS attended the meetings. A representative from the Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense and, later, one from the War Production Board, were often in attendance.  

Members of the committee were H. L. Derby, chairman, E. M. Allen, H. F. Atherton, Charles Belknap, Willard H. Dow, Lammot du Pont, J. W. McLaughlin, George W. Merck, Charles S. Munson, and Warren H. Watson. 

Minutes of the meetings of the Chemical Advisory Committee are in files of the Manufacturing Chemists Association. Reproduction of these minutes and other data are in CWS 314.7 Chemical Advisory Committee File. 

Another development that facilitated preparations for chemical warfare under the Munitions Program was the receipt of pertinent information from the British. The assistant military attache in London in the emergency period, a CWS officer, obtained access to data on development and production methods for chemical warfare items, on British smoke operations for screening critical installations, on the effects of incendiary bombing, and on the types of German incendiaries dropped on London. 

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J. Davidson Pratt, Historical Account of Offensive Chemical Warfare Research up to the Date of the Formation of the Chemical Advisory Committee in February 1916 , P(ublic) R(ecord) O(ffice), MUN 5/385/1650/9. 

The decision was taken by the Chemical Advisory Committee under Barcroft s leadership TNA,WOi42/264, Lt Col A.W Crossley RE, The Royal Engineers Experimental Station, Porton (1919), pp. iiff. also TNA, WO188/802, p. 7 Sturdy 1998, p. 70. 

This information is contained in Ltr, Louis Johnson, Asst SW to E. M. Allen, 30 Mar 39. CWS 314.7 Chemical Advisory Committee to ANMB File. 

Interv, Hist Off with Charles S. Munson, who served on the Chemical Advisory Committee, 21 Jan 58. (2) Interv, Hist Off with Col Harry A. Kuhn, USA Ret, 20 Nov 57. Col. 

Kuhn was liaison officer to the Committee for CWS. (3) Ltr, E. R. Weidlein to Hist Off, 31 Jan 58. Mr. Weidlein was Chief of the Chemical Div of the Advisory Commission to the Council of Nat l Defense and later Chief of the Chemical Div, WPB. (4) Ltr, E. W. Reid to Hist Off, 26 Feb 58. Mr. Reid succeeded Mr. Weidlein as Chief of Chemical Div, WPB. (5) Interv, Hist Off with Wilbur F. Sterling, 29 Apr 58. Mr. Sterling served as contact officer of ANMB to the Chemical Advisory Committee. (6) Minutes of the Meetings of the Chemical Advisory Committee. On 8 Dec 42, Robert P, Patterson, USW, and James Forrescal, USN, attended a meeting of the committee. Both expressed appreciation for the achievements of the committee to dace and requested that the committee be continued during and after the war. 

These same files, supplemented by other source material, were consulted for the emergency and war periods. The author found valuable information on the Chemical Advisory Committee to the Army-Navy Munitions Board in the files of the Chlorine Institute and the Manufacturing Chemists Association. He also searched the retired files of the Army-Navy Munitions Board, some of which were in the National Archives and others in the Pentagon. He obtained data on various aspects of CWS procurement and distribution from retired files of the Assistant Secretary of War (ASW), the Under Secretary of War (USW), the Army Service Forces (ASF), the Operations Division (OPD) of the War Department General Staff, the War Production Board (WPD), and the War Department Manpower Board (WDMB), all in the National Archives. 

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