OCS Role in Officer Procurement

Compared to the number of officers procured from other sources, the OCS contribution was negligible even in the late summer of 1942, when CWS officer strength of three thousand included only two hundred OCS graduates Chart iz). The rapid rise in OCS output, which began in the fall of 1942, brought the two lines into approximate balance so that for the next nine months the increase in officer strength had an almost direct 

Chart 11—Chemical Warfare Service Officer Strength and OCS Graduations May 1940-July 1945 

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