Document about receiving the Army-Navy Production Award Procter & Gamble Defense Corporation, 1 April 1944
Gift of Jean Young
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Photograph. Photograph of document sent from Robert P. Patterson, Under Secretary of War to the men and women of the Gulf Ordnance Plant, Procter & Gamble Defense Corporation, Aberdeen, Mississippi. Plant earned the Army-Navy Production Award. 1 April 1944
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1944,1944,1944,1944,
04/01/1944
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Material form the service of William J. Young III, who served overseas with the Navy and during stateside duty photographed production at the Gulf Ordnance Plant, Procter & Gamble Defense Corporation, Aberdeen, Mississippi. The Gulf Ordnance Plant opened in November 1942 and remained in operation through 1945. The factory employed more than 10,000 people and produced a varierty of ordnance including 20mm, 40mm, 57mm, 67mm, and 75mm shells, 100-pound bombs and naval tracer ammunition. The collection consists of photographs of the Gulf Ordnance Plant, Procter & Gamble Defense Corporation, Aberdeen, Mississippi.
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Aberdeen
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33.817
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-88.533