Contents
Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Alan Gropman Chapter Page I. Industrial Mobilization 1 Alan Gropman II. Acquisition in World War II 97 John E. Bokel and Rolf Clark III. The Economics of America's World War II Mobilization 145 Donald L. Losman, Irene Kyriakopoulos, and J. Dawson Ahalt IV. Building Victory's Foundation: Infrastructure 193 Hugh Conway and James E. Toth V. Lend-Lease: An Assessment of a Government Bureaucracy 265 Marcus R. Erlandson VI. Joint Logistics in the Pacific Theater 293 Anthony W. Gray, Jr. VII. Materialschlact: The "Matériel Battle" in the European Theater 339 Barry J. Dysart APPENDICES A. The War Agencies of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government 393 Bibliography 413 Index 437 The Editor and Authors 445