San Francisco Port of Embarkation

The CWS in SWPA was not yet aware, at the end of June, of the War Department supply policy they had heard nothing at all from the United States in the first four months after the establishment of the USAFIA and were to have no word from the Office of the Chief, Chemical Warfare Service, until July. The basic War Department plan was dated 22 January 1942, and the specific plan for the forces in Australia was dated 2 February 1942. The specific War Department plan called for 90 days supply of all classes other than ammunition, computed on the standard tables of basic allowances (TBA) 90 days supply of ground ammunition, computed on the basis of a special ammunition day of supply for weapons in the theater and five months supply of aerial bombs, ammunition, and pyrotechnics, computed according to a special allowance per aircraft in Australia and the Netherlands East Indies. The Adjutant General instructed the technical services in the United States to compute allowances and set up shipments to the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, which was charged with shipment to the theater. The chiefs of the technical services were also charged with allotting funds to the theater for the operation of their services in the theater and for the local procurement of materiel. ... 

Marriott spent much of his time in 1943 simply in determining how SWPA interpreted chemical supply, what channels existed, how much subordinate elements wanted, and where to store the immediate supply demands of organizations. In June 1943 USASOS provided that requisitions for TBA equipment should be submitted to base section chemical officers who could fill them without further reference. Requisitions for supplies in excess of TBA had to be approved by Marriott and forwarded to USASOS. The availability of non-TBA items in USASOS depended upon the ability of the USASOS Chemical Section supply officers to predict unusual issues and to persuade the United States authorities to ship them. Transportation could be obtained either by theater allotment of space, which was controlled in GHQ, or by San Francisco Port of Embarkation allotment. USASOS sometimes issued credits for controlled (non-TBA or scarce) items to Sixth Army for Marriott s suballotment, but each issue against credit had to be approved... 

Ltr, CmlO USASOS SWPA to SupO Cml Br Overseas Sup Div San Francisco Port of Embarkation, (Oakland, Calif.), 7 Jun 43, sub Portable Flame Throwers, New MxAi, and Accessories. GSWC 470.7 in CWS SPCVO 470,71 APO 501. 

The scale of operations varied considerably from port to port. The San Francisco Port of Embarkation, bearing primary responsibility for supply of the Pacific theaters, processed a rising flood of CWS equipment and... 

Chemical sections were first activated in the ports of embarkation in the latter part of the emergency period. A chemical section existed in the San Francisco General Depot (which acted as supply agency for the San Francisco Port before Pearl Harbor) as early as October 1940, but the first Port Chemical Warfare Sections, properly so called, were those activated at the New York and New Orleans Ports of Embarkation in August... 

Within three months after Pearl Harbor, CWS sections were in operation at the Seattle, Charleston, and Boston Ports of Embarkation, as well as at San Francisco, where the supply functions were shifted to the Port of Embarkation in December 1941. The Chemical Warfare Section of the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation came into being in August... 

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