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Appointed assistant to Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Major General Charles Macon Wesson (ret.), ex-Chief of Ordnance...
...Major General James Henry Burns to be chief of Army Ordnance. Leaving General Burns as munitions man on the United Nations High Command,* the President chose sandy-haired, gimlet-eyed, rough-tongued Levin H. Campbell Jr., 55, to run Ordnance after June 1, when Major General Charles M. Wesson's four-year term expires...
General Burns takes over Ordnance in June, when the four-year term of Major General Charles Macon Wesson expires. Under Brass Hat "Bull" Wesson, Army Ordnance had a mottled record. The start of World War II caught it without an outstanding tank design or artillery piece, and with its new soldier's helmet-to replace the neck-exposing World War I helmet-not yet in production. A year ago, most of official Washington still thought that Ordnance was bumbling and boggling, overdue for a shakeup. Since then it has done better, has brought in guns and tanks...
Major Gen. Charles M. Wesson, Chief of Ordnance, recently directed his 13 district procurement offices to expand their local staffs of civilian engineers and management men, by at least five. Their function: to show small manufacturers how to do Army work and how to get Army orders. Furthermore, said the General, big Army contractors should be drafted to act as "big brothers" to these little men, by lending out their own engineers...
...performance of General Wesson and subordinates (now 3,649 officers, 23,000 enlisted men) needed excuse, one might well be found in the paradoxical temper of the U.S. For close to 20 years the Ordnance Department, like the rest of the Army, rocked along on niggardly appropriations from a people determined not to prepare for the next war. Since the U.S. would have no munitions business, Ordnance had almost no practice with production, had to confine itself almost entirely to research and limited development of new weapons...