Setting Up the Publications Program

The prewar official Army manual was well written, but in a staid and unexciting style. It was directed toward the instructor rather than to the 

The CWS manuals published before the war were prepared under the general supervision of the Training Division of the Chief s Office. That division was responsible for obtaining War Department authorization for proposed publications, for arranging for the writing of manuals, and for obtaining concurrences, when necessary, of other arms and services to final drafts. 

Of the three offices concerned with the preparation of publications at 

The Training Aids Section remained an operating agency of the Office of the Chief located at the Chemical Warfare Center until June 1943 when, with its equipment and staff, it became a division of the Chemical Warfare 

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