Supply Division, OC CWS

The training of depot employees was closely supervised by the Supply Division, OC CWS. Training units were set up at those depots where... 

Source The figures in this table were compiled from data furnished by Supply Division, OC CWS, in 1946. 

By the summer of 1943 the Supply Division, OC CWS, was receiving copies of War Department Shipping Documents which accompanied all shipments of materials. On the basis of these documents the CWS for the first time compiled accurate statistics on materiel shipped to the ports of embarkation and other points in the zone of interior. With these figures, together with those on procurement, the CWS could calculate the amount of materiel in transit, the amount received in depots, and the amount shipped directly to the various units. 

Interv, Hist Off with William Harris, II, 29 Aug 57. Harris was a key officer in Supply Division, OC CWS, from May 43 until after close of World War II. 

In February 1942 the Chief, Supply Division, OC CWS, decided to have CW spare parts stored at the Indianapolis Depot. Interv, Hist Off with Col Oscar Gullans, 6 Dec 54. Gullans commanded this depot in World War II. ASF did not officially designate the place as a spare parts depot until 14 May 43, under ASF Memo S-50-3-43. 

The return of overseas materiel necessitated the formulation of a plan for receiving, classifying, and repairing various CW items. In conformity with a directive from the Distribution Division, ASF, the Chief, Supply Division, OC CWS, drew up such a plan in the spring of 1945. This plan divided CW materiel into six categories and established receiving ports and classification facilities for each category. To illustrate, flame throwers, classified as Class B items under the plan, were to be received at the east and west coast ports and at New Orleans, and were to be sent to Rocky Mountain Arsenal for repair. ... 

Sourct Baltimore-Liaison Office, Storage Branch, Supply Division, OC CWS, Dec. 1944. 

Under the new plan the Industrial Division, OC CWS, assumed the role of a staff rather than an operating agency. It prepared procurement schedules of end items for the installations, based on the Army Supply Program, In preparing these schedules the division consulted frequently with installation officials. Three weeks after the schedules were drawn up, a meeting of representatives of the chiefs office, the arsenals, and the districts was held in Washington for the purpose of arranging the manufacture and delivery of components which the installations could not procure within their own confines. 

There were no personnel units at the CWS sections of the ports of embarkation or at the CWS government-owned, privately operated plants. Requests for funds to cover authorization of civilian positions in the chemical sections of the ports were forwarded through the commanding officers of the ports to the Office of the Chief, CWS. It was incumbent upon port chemical officers to supply the Chief s office with pertinent data relating to the jobs, such as organization charts and job descriptions. The OC CWS, particularly the Supply Division, kept close watch on all port activ-... 

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