ARMS PRODUCTION WORLD WAR 2

Lt. Gen. Levin H. Campbell, Jr., Chief of Ordnance from 1942
to 1946, proudly had this to say:

"From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day the Industry-Ordnance team
furnished to the Army and 43 foreign nations 47 billion rounds
of small arms ammunition, approximately 11 million tons of artillery
ammunition, more than 12 million rifles /carbines, approximately
750,000 artillery pieces and 3/2 million military vehicles. with
25,065,834,000 rounds of just .30 cal. ammunition were produced
between 1942-1945, and in that same period 71 million rounds of
other ammunition calibers spilled from Army munitions plants daily.

Olin`s Western Cartridge Co. Division made "hundreds of millions"
7.92 mm Mauser cartridges for the Chinese; Winchester made like
quantities of .303s for the British. Both made other types as well,
bringing their combined wartime ammunition total to almost nine
billion rounds.

Du Pont`s Remington Arms Co. established and operated five new
GOCO ordnance plants, Denver, Kings Mills, Lake City, Lowell and Utah,
accounting for over 16 billion rounds of standard military ammunition
of 33 caliber types.

Remington supplied a total of over 60,000 Model 1 IA, Sportsman and
31 shotguns for aerial training with more than 5,000 traps, millions of
clay birds and over half a billion rounds of shotshells. Two billion rim
fire cartridges and thousands of Model 513-T .22 rifles were supplied
for training.

Federal Cartridge Co. operated the Twin Cities Arsenal that produced
more than four billion rounds of military ammunition,

Chrysler`s lines were devoted to vehicles, but under GOCO contract
it operated the Evansville Ordnance Plant, the largest producer of .45
ACP ammunition in the war."
　
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NRA-ILA :: The Great Arsenal of Democracy