America's Munitions 1917-1918

BOOK I.

ORDNANCE.

CHAPTER I.

THE ORDNANCE PROBLEM.

To arm the manhood called to defend the Nation in 1917 and 1918, to make civilians into soldiers by giving them the tools of the martial profession--such was the task of the Ordnance Department in the late war.

The off-hand thought may identify ordnance as artillery alone. It may surprise many to know th...