So, when America entered World War I and the
War Department needed training fields to begin to build an air force, Joy was quick to offer up his Michigan property.
Now that Ike had a prime spot in the
War Department, he needed to prove that Marshall had made the right decision.
Despite the ongoing war, McEachren maintained his professional activities; he was one of the main speakers at the ALA's 1942 annual meeting in Chicago ("Determination of Contract Costs by the
War Department," Wartime Accounting, 1942, pp.
Shortly thereafter, the
War Department awarded Lynch the Legion of Merit in recognition of his six months of difficult service on Bataan and Corregidor.
The
War Department therefore sought out a civilian partner to help, and immediately settled on the Young Men's Christian Association.
Annual Reports of the
War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30,1900, Part 13: Report of the Military Governor of Porto Rico on Civil Affairs, 56th Cong.
In 1945, the
War Department opened the first SCI center in the country.
Because of its association with these virtues, the sphinx was selected by the
War Department in 1923 as the most appropriate symbol to represent the newly established Military Intelligence (MI) Officers' Reserve Corps, an association of World War I veterans with experience and interest in intelligence.
In September 1940, shortly before the entry of America into the Second War World war, the
War Department announced the formation of an aviation unit of "colored personnel.
The Evangelical Association had first gone about its business quietly, appointing a committee to call on the fort commander, who had in turn referred them to the
War Department in Washington, D.
This kukri was issued in World War I to British Gurkha regiments and each blade bears World War I dates and a British
war department broad arrow.
When World War II began in Europe, the
War Department was bursting at the seams in a "temporary" Great War-era building on the National Mall.
