Army-Navy "E" Award

These three separate awards continued until seven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor had pulled the United States into World War II.

Harley A. Wilhelm received the award for inventing the Ames process for the extraction, purification and mass production of uranium for the Manhattan Project, which occurred at Iowa State College.

[5] Some factors which were considered in selecting recipients were:[4] District procurement officers, chiefs of the supply services, agencies concerned with production and the Commanding Officers for the Matériel Commands would recommend plants, complete with the reasons for such recommendations.

The pennant was a triangular swallowtail with a white border, with a capital E within a yellow wreath of oak and laurel leaves on a vertical divided blue and red background.

[3] The Army-Navy "E" Award was terminated three months after the end of World War II, on December 5, 1945.

A large house with a stone chimney, decorated with bunting. An army officer runs a red and blue flag up a flagpole. In the foreground are two men in suits and one in an army uniform.
Los Alamos Laboratory director J. Robert Oppenheimer (left), Manhattan Project director Major General Leslie Groves (center) and University of California president Robert Gordon Sproul (right) at the ceremony to present the laboratory with the Army-Navy "E" Award in October 1945. An army officer hoists the red and blue E Award pennant up the flagpole.
For Excellence in production, Army Navy "E", Let's Keep It Flying!
Army-Navy Production Award to Stanley Works , presentation program, January 20, 1943
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