By Harold Raugh, DLA Chief Historian DLA Public Affairs Fort Belvoir, Virginia In September 1961, Army Lt. Gen. Andrew T. McNamara was named the first director of the Defense Supply Agency, the forerunner to the Defense Logistics Agency. McNamara, then deputy...

This Report was extracted from the Unofficial history of the Australian & New Zealand Armed Services where it had been included because in the Pacific the Australian army was, to a large degree, dependent on the US military for the supply of Quartermaster Services...

Introduction and article extracted fromhttps://www.historynet.com/red-ball-express/?r INTRODUCTION During WW II, advances toward the enemy often ran allied troops painfully short of supplies. Armies without food to feed the soldiers or medical supplies to mend the...