Warfare Service Civilian Personnel Strength, November 1918-December

Total occws Field End of month Total OCCWS Field [Pg.27]

1920 until 1938 a dozen officers and a score of civilians constituted the entire personnel of the Chief s office. [Pg.27]

Assisting the Chief, CWS, were an Advisory Committee of fifteen civilian authorities in chemistry and chemical engineering, a CWS Technical Committee, and a Chemical Warfare Board. The Advisory Committee, which was unofficial in capacity, was set up in the American Chemical Society in 1920. The members of the committee met periodically with CWS scientists and administrators to discuss policies and problems of research and development. The CWS Technical Committee, also set up in 1920, came into existence as the result of a need for co-ordination among interested branches of the armed forces in the development and standardization of chemical warfare items.On the Technical Committee sat representatives of CWS and of the following Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, Infantry, Air Corps, Cavalry, General Staff, National Guard Bureau, and the Assistant Secretaries of the War and Navy Departments. The Chemical Warfare Board was established at Edgewood Arsenal in 1923 to study and co-ordinate technical developments with tactical doctrine and methods. [Pg.28]

Research, development, training, manufacturing, and storage functions were centered at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. There in 1920 a functional type of organization was set up consisting of the following units the [Pg.28]

Chemical Warfare Service Chiefs, February 1 20-April 1941. Top left, Aid/. Gen. Amos A. Fries, 1920-29 right, Ma], Gen. Walter C. Baker, 195-J-41 bottom left. Aid/. Gen. Harry L. Gilchrist, 1929- y right, Maj. Gen. Claude E. Brigham, 1933-37. [Pg.29]

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