America's Munitions 1917-1918

by Benedict Crowell; United States. War Department

1918.	Liq­uid chlo­rine. [33]	Gas­e­ous chlo­rine. [34]	Chlor­picrin.	Phos­gene.	Mus­tard oil.	Brom­benzyl cy­a­nide.	White phos­pho­rus.	Tin tet­ra­chlo­ride.	Ti­ta­ni­um tet­ra­chlo­ride.
January			10
February			27				34
March	40		59				74	38
April	176		33	15			59	116
May	378		130	18			70	51	50
June	546		263	23	6		60	95
July	512		499	100	21		80	112	27
August	243		646	314	36		162	94	53
September	438	191	564	327	144		125	96	26
October	242	649	445	664	361		265	75	25
November	148	264	100	155	143	5	77	18
Total	2,723	1,104	2,776	1,616	711	5	1,006	695	181
Amount shipped overseas	1,488		1,903	420	190		171	106
Total monthly producing capacity, Nov. 1, 1918	895	1,500	1,500	1,050	900	90	100	91	30
Estimated capacity, Jan. 1, 1919	1,100	2,250	1,500	1,650	4,000	90	100	91	30

[33] Procured from commercial agencies.

[34] Manufactured at Edgewood.

Shell, grenades, Livens drums, and drop bombs filled.

1918.	75-mm. shell.			Grenades.		Livens drums.	Incendiary drop bombs.
	Chlor­picrin.	Phos­gene.	Mus­tard oil.	White phos­pho­rus.	Tin tet­ra­chlo­ride.	Phos­gene.	Mark I.	Mark II.
July	62,866			8,696	1,639
August	125,951			170,160	56,763	1,738	350
September	110,358	1,988	75,529	51,421	127,319	6,355		1,998
October	09,704	12	79,272	110,928	147,669	12,026	184	100
November	15,892	9	224	98,948	30,386	5,570	8	6
Total	424,771	2,009	155,025	440,153	363,776	25,689	542	2,104
Total number shipped overseas	300,000		150,000	224,984	175,080	18,600

75-mm. shell (ultimate capacity)	2,400,000
4.7-inch shell	450,000
155-mm. shell	540,000
6-inch shell	180,000
Gas grenades	750,000
Smoke grenades	480,000
Livens drums	30,000

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CHAPTER II.
GAS DEFENSE EQUIPMENT.

During the spring and summer of 1917 two marked tendencies were to be observed in the fighting in France. One of these was the greatly increased use by both sides of poisonous gases and chemicals, frightful in their effect; the other the almost complete censorship that hid the knowledge of this tendency not only from the people of Europe but particularly from those of the newest belligerent, America. The French and British Governments, who then controlled all news from the front, feared, and perhaps with reason, that if the picture of gas warfare, as it was then developing, should be placed before the American people, it would result in an unreasonable dread of gases on the part of the American Nation and its soldiers.