Show war goods rom from brushes to bombs are stored in huge warehouses of utah ordnance depot munitions are made alade in nearby factory at salt lake city by john elbridge bridge EI jones by Hew hewer pr unit the military r y axiom that an army tra travels ta Is on its belly belly is I 1 true but a modern army needs many other race necessary ar supplies sz and shoes shoe a fring for instance lan and trucks and tanks tractors munitions and guns to furnish is h these supplies when and where needed and in the proper amount the U S army has built up separate or organizations with the army headed by general brehon B somervell called service commands there is a service command for each military area not only within the U S but wherever the army goes for the a first 12 months or more of this war r all 11 information r motion r regarding di army my operation per non and phe placement emen was as a military secret driving for fine final I 1 vie victory rv the army wants at you to know ow it how it operates how it takes care of your year son a or your you h husband abaid what hat it fee feeds h him ce how it clothes hion him what it gives give him to fight with ili and ad how it cares area tor for him when he 0 sick or wounded with the that I 1 in mind me ma gen ken you yon A joyce commanding general of the ninth service cc command with headquarters boad quarters aei in sell salt lake city utah recently invited a group of newspaper men to visit all of the army service forces these newspaper P a r men were shown everything impe and told everything but they were re restricted not to reveal military information g helpful to the enemy non combat goods AU al a of the thousands thousand of articles called a non combat equipment meaning in general everything the orny army uses as except P t actual we ean and it fighting touch machines in a are a procured by purchase or aa are made ts to order canoed canned vegetables vegetable blankets anif haffty ty puts pins uniforms ot of all sorts road do machinery and stoves are samples of these things not used in actual fighting but most at necessary lust just the same the ninth service ep command romand p procures and stores thi nop combat deoma equipment quip ment in utah army service forms forces depot at ogden under the direct command of brig gen ralph talbot jr here are tremendous warehouses and storage spaces much ot of it in the open with seemingly miles of rows of equipment such as iced trailers e trench diggers harrows carry alls scrapers water tanks plows portable generators barb wire and it bridge building material the depot is roughly a mile wide by three miles mile I 1 long g the there or are 15 11 permanent type watch warehouses a of concrete on and steel and nine temporary warehouses houses of wooden construction they ban house s a everything the army needs wid and u uses as outside of munitions and roup implements of war S several e veral are used tor for food others tor gor clothing kitchen equipment for automobiles for drainage tiles for pipe for everything on display were box lockers 12 kinds of h hats a is or caps shirts and unde underwear e ar carrying bags gloves coats coate mess mes kits hits sleeping bags uniforms for arav and for and for nurses nurses musical instruments shoes hue sax tool do s sets is helon helmets st plastic 44 moll this young war worker miss lou g ise 0 A anderson dax is hibo dalalo aLo exhibiting tung belts balks ot of go machine fun car cartridges t aulga for air pis planes il sh she opet operates a machine that fills the belts which are made of at webbing c inspectors at the ordnance depot a m batch 1 empty ca cartridge cases retained to be melted into br P T hev ast that ne liv ammunition has got mixed with t he sh cabi 1 I it would eap exp ode in he furnace and possibly cause an accident tent foot tubs tabs ahi flags s tents tema tent sagel stoves and mountain tents teals among thousands ou of other articles were pack kits gasoline lanterns lantern emergency rations G I 1 thread and needles compasses pliers sunburn cream chap stick towels and rubber pants unique here was a the fact that a part of the guard tor for dav daylight light service a is made up of women women traced to do guard duty 0 carry a gun and use it police dogs dogs a d the guards at night making cartridges cartridge guns cartridges bombs be b and sim elta md am ilar munitions as well as war r machines mcl like ateo ta tanks n ka and armored trucks are am made at t tb the army s own ordnance fac factories factorize torie s or r by private manufacturers ancier government contract one of the these e is latter tic r is th the a utah ordnance plant in salt lake lahe city the plant area I 1 is a about 5 acres with more than buildings building 10 jil miles of heavy track railroad and 17 miles of surfaced road inner and outer fences extend a dt distance aives of about 21 miles most of which is an under d 24 h hour u surveillance ur ill nee by angrl lary military gumc guard under direction of the army this plant 1 is the last word in a modern modem line production system for manufacturing small arms ammunition such us as 10 and it 50 calffe armor aror or piercing tracer meen incendiary diary and ball bail shells here hem the principal opo op orations amt erat ions s are making the shell sheil the bullet and the primer bringing them au together cod and then filling them with powder the finished amen ammunition ditten is put into belts or clips M and then packed in metal at lined da dax cases x for shipment outstanding in the plant is the continuous tda rigid testing and checking fur for on the efficient operation of these munitions may depend the life of jom your an son or 1 husband aa finally all y a certain percentage of each batch is sont sent to the ballistics department where hers shells are am actually fired in guns used used by the army and are checked checke 2 for accuracy fire power and denra penetration to thoele tooele at ordnance an depot during war the various ordnance manufacturing plants may ship direct to the field of a action ct ion but a large part of the mot material e r at must dust of necessity be neld held in reserve in storage at I 1 for this purpose the government has built huge storage depots dapo in strategic locations those these basic supply u ply depots are removed from the seacoast ca for protection yet so located thet that war goods may be braes transport or ed swiftly s w aly by rail highway or IP plane if to t the h points of embarkation the army has built the to teofle me ordnance oranan ce depot dett it at tooele utah about 40 ml miles southwest of sat salt lk lake a city the e depot comprising an at area ea of I 1 some me 2 26 6 ca acres c a is a served by two transcontinental rail roads giving quick access to in the northwest the san F francisco a bay alb area and the South westall t important por tant P ports ts for the pacific theater of war within ishm the depot are miles of h hard d surfaced f highway and 77 miles or railway track five D diesel Is set switch engines engine handle freig freight lit cars are the ordnance depot performs three main an functions fet ions first it is I 1 the reserve storage t I 1 for 0 all munitions including fifis and ad coni machine chins gun ammunition shells and bombs of all 11 sizes ird and weights h is it stores reserves of ordnance equipment such a as pistols pisto Js rules rifles machine guns cannon trench th rench mortars mortar mid and ro mobile bile fighting equipment such as a tanks leaps jeeps trucks and tractors repair a and salvage second econ d the ili did ordnance ce depot is a E service organization organisation jt it put puts equipment q gnp together oge er gets it ready ad for shipment and ships it it takes care of th the a repair and rebuilding of damaged and badly worn equipment in the depot area are huge buildings one of them th em 52 feet wide by feet long used wholly for making repairs that cannot be taken care of at the front duplicate parts of all equipment are kept on hand han deither either for use in the depot or for r shipment the third thard function of the tooele ordnance depot is one of salvage back to this depot wre sent tram train loads dads of used shells large and small mall the undamaged damaged are shipped t to the munitions factories for refilling and the unusable are sent to the smelters shelters sm elters the army expects to get back approximately 90 per can cent or of toe the holl packing cases sea ammu mt b belts clips etc issued women by far outnumber the tien men in the warehouses warehouse girls t trained for the job operate motor driven ramn fork i lift trucks truck which hach pick up huge cases and stack them rhems 8 ili 10 and 12 feet h high agh the depot is manned mostly by civilians most bat interesting alg of all 11 the features of the depot is the storage of f elibe the actual munitions small caliber anisun tio tion is stored in above the ground warehouses heavy ammunition and bombs are stored in 1 I igloos there are about 1000 1 of these igloos ranging in size from 40 feet to 80 feet long in the shape of Is bonen and machines have displaced P red husky men a m a the T thoele tooele ordnance depot u warehouses mie ass mss a katherina Ka therme boswell runs rims a fork lift shop truck that can move 1 and pal pile a ten cases a trip the wo work is do done by one truck would cost 40 an hour hoar it done by hand half if 01 a barrel the a walls 1 t and ceiling all eu are made d of I 1 regj reinforced r a d cement ze time nine inches thick covered with two to three feet of gravel and soil one of the igloos visited oa was about half full containing several hundred 1000 pound semi block buster bombs all ready for shipment to ha hirohito hato for protection the depot is watched over ever by a corps 0 of if auxiliary y military guard under th the a direction ot of the army who patrol in cars care not far distant from the tooele thoele ordnance plant pla ot but b ut entirely sepa rate is ano another ther de depot p at here the IM army Y stores and experiments with gas as for the kind ot of warfare the unit ed nations hope to avoid but as proof of what president roosevelt and and mr churchill say a ay about being rz ready dy for far it it is a there it may never be used but its it s there wait me ing and ready if needed |