Word: wesson
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Surface units cannot of their own resources cover, protect and defend the areas of vital interest without the assist ance of strategically located coastal or island shore-based aircraft.") The most revealing thing about U. S. Defense was a little slip of the tongue by Major General Charles M. Wesson...
Last March a House subcommittee threshed out the Garand argument with the Army's Chief of Ordnance Charles M. Wesson. Cagey, capable Major General Wesson stood up for the Garand ("the best semi-automatic rifle ever considered by the Army"). When Congressmen wanted to know who originally sponsored the Garand, General Wesson passed the buck to the Infantry. He also confirmed a rumor which reflects more grave ly on Army bureaucrats than on their new rifle. In the fourth year (1939) of Garand tests, the Army discovered a de fect so serious that a new barrel...
...Army has spent some $15,000,000 on Garands, needs at least $6,500,000 more to reach its goal of 240,559 new rifles by June 1942. After hearing General Wesson, the House committeemen ap proved a $2,000,000 appropriation for fiscal 1941 with this significant reservation: "The committee is unwilling to take the responsibility of not doing so, even though it later may be found that we have gone ahead too rabidly." Said Committeeman D. Lane Powers (New Jersey): "We do not want to appropriate for . . . additional rifles if what we hear and what we read...