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Military Order of the World Wars
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The Military Order of the World War was created in 1919 by General of the Armies John J. Pershing as a fraternity for American military officers coming out of the Great War. Two decades later, when the USA became involved in WWII the organization name was pluralized to its current title of Military Order of the World Wars. Though the Order's title has not changed since 1945, it remains a current officer's society welcoming new qualified members in current military service and has members from the Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, War in Afghanistan, War in Iraq, and peacetime service.[1]
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1 Membership
2 Awards & Insignia
3 Awards Presented to other Organizations
4 Related Organizations
5 References
Membership[edit]
Membership in the MOWW is open to any and all commissioned and warrant officers who served honorably, or are currently serving, in any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces regardless of length of service or status as a combat veteran dating back to April 6, 1917 when the USA entered WWI. Additionally, any direct lineal descendant from a qualifying officer may also join the order, which indicates that the order also serves as a genealogical society.[2]
Famous members include:
General of the Armies John J. Pershing
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
General of the Army George C. Marshall
General William Westmoreland
President (former army captain) Harry Truman
President Ronald Reagan[3]
Awards & Insignia[edit]
All members of the Order are entitled to wear the badge of the order, which consists of the emblem suspended from a mini rainbow ribbon of reversed colors from the WWI Victory Medal. Perpetual (life) membership denoted by a silver service star.
Any member of the Order may earn the Patrick Henry Award in any of three levels: bronze, silver, and gold for patriotic achievements to the nation or community.
Any member of the Order may earn the Outreach Service Medal for serving as the chairman of a chapter's outreach programs serving various American youth, institutions, or public servants for at least 1 year. Examples of these outreach groups include scouting (Eagle Scouts and Girl Scout Gold Award recipients), JROTC cadets, ROTC cadets, law enforcement professionals, and other similar civic organizations. Multiple awards denoted by silver service stars.
Any member of the Order may earn the Outstanding Service Award for exceptional service to the Order for a period of at least three years. Multiple awards denoted by silver service stars.[4]
Awards Presented to other Organizations[edit]
-JROTC Award of Merit: presented to the best first year, second year, and third year cadet in a JROTC battalion each class year. Multiple awards denoted by silver service stars.
-ROTC Award of Merit: presented to the best first year (bronze), second year (silver), and third year (gold) cadet in a JROTC battalion each class year. As there is a different ribbon for each ROTC program year, multiple awards to the same cadet are not possible (though a single exceptional cadet could earn the different awards).
-Eagle Scout Certificate: presented to members of the Boy Scouts of America who have earned the Eagle Scout rank.
-Gold Award Certificate: presented to members of the Girl Scouts of the USA who have earned the Gold Award.
It was announced in late 2016 that certificates would be added for the BSA Summit and BSA Quartermaster awards as well.[5]
Related Organizations[edit]
Society of the Cincinnati For officers of the Revolution.
Aztec Club of 1847 For officers of the Mexican War.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States For Union officers of the Civil War.
Military Order of the Stars and Bars For Confederate officers of the Civil War.
Military Order of Foreign Wars For officers of any foreign war.
Veterans of Foreign Wars For veterans of any foreign war.
The first five organizations listed above are, like the MOWW, also open to direct lineal descendants of qualifying officers of their respective war(s). Only the MOWW does not require the officer to be a combat veteran.
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Rationing in the United States
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Di Natale ration stamps printed, but not used, as a result of the 1973 oil crisis
Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services, or an artificial restriction of demand. Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one's allotted portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time.
Rationing in the US was introduced in stages during World War II.
Contents
1 World War I
2 World War II
3 Gallery
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
World War I[edit]
Although the United States did not have food rationing in World War I, it relied heavily on propaganda campaigns to persuade people to curb their food consumption.
Through slogans such as "Food Will Win the War", "Meatless Meals", and "Wheatless Wednesdays", the United States Food Administration under Herbert Hoover reduced national consumption by 15%.[1]
World War II[edit]
In summer 1941 the British appealed to Americans to conserve food to provide more to go to Britons fighting in World War II. The Office of Price Administration warned Americans of potential gasoline, steel, aluminum, and electricity shortages.[2] It believed that with factories converting to military production and consuming many critical supplies, rationing would become necessary if the country entered the war. It established a rationing system after the attack on Pearl Harbor.[3]:133
Tires were the first item to be rationed by the OPA, which ordered the temporary end of sales on 11 December 1941 while it created 7,500 unpaid, volunteer three-person tire ration boards around the country. By 5 January 1942 the boards were ready. Each received a monthly allotment of tires based on the number of local vehicle registrations, and allocated them to applicants based on OPA rules.[3]:133 There was a shortage of rubber for tires since the Japanese quickly conquered the rubber-producing regions of Southeast Asia. Although synthetic rubber had been invented before the war, it had been unable to compete with natural rubber commercially, so the US did not have enough manufacturing capacity at the start of the war to make synthetic rubber. Throughout the war, rationing of gasoline was motivated by a desire to conserve rubber as much as by a desire to conserve gasoline.[4]
The War Production Board (WPB) ordered the temporary end of all civilian automobile sales on 1 January 1942, leaving dealers with one half million unsold cars. Ration boards grew in size as they began evaluating automobile sales in February (only certain professions, such as doctors and clergymen, qualified to purchase the remaining inventory of new automobiles), typewriters in March, and bicycles in May.[3]:124,133–135 Automobile factories stopped manufacturing civilian models by early February 1942 and converted to producing tanks, aircraft, weapons, and other military products, with the United States government as the only customer.[5] As of 1 March 1942, dog food could no longer be sold in tin cans, and manufacturers switched to dehydrated versions. As of 1 April 1942, anyone wishing to purchase a new toothpaste tube, then made from metal, had to turn in an empty one.[3]:129–130 By June 1942 companies also stopped manufacturing metal office furniture, radios, phonographs, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and sewing machines for civilians.[3]:118,124,126–127
Henry Segerstrom in front of an automobile with "A" sticker in windshield showing lowest priority of gasoline rationing and entitled the car owner to 3 to 4 US gallons of gasoline per week.
Civilians first received ration books—War Ration Book Number One, or the "Sugar Book"—on 4 May 1942,[6] through more than 100,000 schoolteachers, PTA groups, and other volunteers.[3]:137 A national speed limit of 35 miles per hour (56 km/h) was imposed to save fuel and rubber for tires.[4] Later that month volunteers again helped distribute gasoline cards in 17 Atlantic and Pacific Northwest states.[3]:138 To get a classification and rationing stamps, one had to appear before a local War Price and Rationing Board which reported to the OPA (which was jokingly said to stand for "Only a Puny A-card"). Each person in a household received a ration book, including babies and small children who qualified for canned milk not available to others. To receive a gasoline ration card, a person had to certify a need for gasoline and ownership of no more than five tires. All tires in excess of five per driver were confiscated by the government, because of rubber shortages. An "A" sticker on a car was the lowest priority of gasoline rationing and entitled the car owner to 3 to 4 US gallons (11 to 15 l; 2.5 to 3.3 imp gal) of gasoline per week. B stickers were issued to workers in the military industry, entitling their holder up to 8 US gallons (30 l; 6.7 imp gal) of gasoline per week. C stickers were granted to persons deemed very essential to the war effort, such as doctors. T rations were made available for truckers. Lastly, X stickers on cars entitled the holder to unlimited supplies and were the highest priority in the system. Clergy, police, firemen, and civil defense workers were in this category.[7] A scandal erupted when 200 Congressmen received these X stickers.[8]
An American child purchases a can of V8, handing the grocer his ration book.
Sugar was the first consumer commodity rationed, with all sales ended on 27 April 1942 and resumed on 5 May with a ration of .5 pounds (0.23 kg) per person per week, half of normal consumption. Bakeries, ice cream makers, and other commercial users received rations of about 70% of normal usage.[6] Coffee was rationed nationally on 29 November 1942 to 1 pound (0.45 kg) every five weeks, about half of normal consumption, in part because of German U-boat attacks on shipping from Brazil.[9] By the end of 1942, ration coupons were used for nine other items.[3]:138 Typewriters, gasoline, bicycles, footwear, silk, nylon, fuel oil, stoves, meat, lard, shortening and food oils, cheese, butter, margarine, processed foods (canned, bottled, and frozen), dried fruits, canned milk, firewood and coal, jams, jellies, and fruit butter were rationed by November 1943.[10] Many retailers welcomed rationing because they were already experiencing shortages of many items due to rumors and panics, such as flashlights and batteries after Pearl Harbor.[3]:133
Scarce medicines such as penicillin were rationed by triage officers in the US military during World War II.[11] Civilian hospitals received only small amounts of penicillin during the war, because it was not mass-produced for civilian use until after the war. A triage panel at each hospital decided which patients would receive the penicillin.
The work of issuing ration books and exchanging used stamps for certificates was handled by some 5,500 local ration boards of mostly volunteer workers selected by local officials. Many levels of rationing went into effect. Some items, such as sugar, were distributed evenly based on the number of people in a household. Other items, like gasoline or fuel oil, were rationed only to those who could justify a need. Restaurant owners and other merchants were accorded more availability, but had to collect ration stamps to restock their supplies. In exchange for used ration stamps, ration boards delivered certificates to restaurants and merchants to authorize procurement of more products.
Each ration stamp had a generic drawing of an airplane, gun, tank, aircraft carrier, ear of wheat, fruit, etc. and a serial number. Some stamps also had alphabetic lettering. The kind and amount of rationed commodities were not specified on most of the stamps and were not defined until later when local newspapers published, for example, that beginning on a specified date, one airplane stamp was required (in addition to cash) to buy one pair of shoes and one stamp number 30 from ration book four was required to buy 5 pounds (2.3 kg) of sugar. The commodity amounts changed from time to time depending on availability. Red stamps were used to ration meat and butter, and blue stamps were used to ration processed foods.
To enable making change for ration stamps, the government issued "red point" tokens to be given in change for red stamps, and "blue point" tokens in change for blue stamps. The red and blue tokens were about the size of dimes (16 millimetres (0.63 in)) and were made of thin compressed wood fiber material, because metals were in short supply.[12]
There was a black market in stamps. To prevent this, the OPA ordered vendors not to accept stamps that they themselves did not tear out of books. Buyers, however, circumvented this by saying (sometimes accurately, as the books were not well-made) that the stamps had "fallen out." In actuality, they may have acquired stamps from other family members or friends, or the black market.[13]
As a result of the gasoline rationing, all forms of automobile racing, including the Indianapolis 500, were banned. Sightseeing driving was also banned. In some regions breaking the gas rationing was so prevalent that night courts were set up to supplement the number of violators caught; the first gasoline-ration night court was created at Pittsburgh's Fulton Building on May 26, 1943.[14]
With the pending capitulation of Japan, the printing of ration books for 1946 was halted by the OPA on August 13, 1945. It was thought that "even if Japan does not fold now, the war will certainly be over before the books can be used."[15]
On August 15, 1945, World War II gas rationing was ended on the West Coast of the United States.[16][17] Most other rationing restrictions also ended in August of 1945 except for sugar rationing, which lasted until 1947 in some parts of the country.[18]
Gallery[edit]
World War II Ration Book, United States, ca 1943
USA Ration Book No. 3 circa 1943, front
Back of ration book
Fighter plane ration stamp
Artillery ration stamp
Tank ration stamp
Aircraft Carrier ration stamp
Basic mileage ration stamps for 1934 Plymouth
Back of mileage stamps
"How to Shop With Ration Book Two", 1943 poster
See also[edit]
Rationing
Rationing in the United Kingdom
Ration stamp
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "U.S. Food Administrator". Biographical Sketch of Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964. Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, National National Archives and Records Administration. 2001-06-20. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
Jump up ^ ""Creamless Days?" / The Pinch". Life. 1941-06-09. p. 38. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Kennett, Lee (1985). For the duration... : the United States goes to war, Pearl Harbor-1942. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0-684-18239-4.
^ Jump up to: a b World War II on the Home Front
Jump up ^ "U.S. Auto Plants are Cleared for War". Life. p. 19. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
^ Jump up to: a b "Sugar: U. S. consumers register for first ration books". Life. 1942-05-11. p. 19. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
Jump up ^ fuel ration stickers Archived 2014-02-10 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Maddox, Robert James. The United States and World War II. Page 193
Jump up ^ "Coffee Rationing". Life. 1942-11-30. p. 64. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
Jump up ^ rationed items Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Kenneth V. Iverson and John C. Moskop, "Triage in Medicine, Part I", in Health Policy and Clinical Practice/Concepts, Volume 49, Num 3, March 2007, page 277, doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed,2006,05,019
Jump up ^ Joseph A. Lowande, U.S. Ration Currency & Tokens 1942-1945.
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Jump up ^ Associated Press, "Government Halts Printing Of Ration Books For 1946", The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Tuesday 14 August 1945, Volume 51, page 2.
Jump up ^ A History of the Petroleum Administration for War, 1941-1945: U.S. Petroleum Administration for War, Washington, 1946. Washington: U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1946. Page 289
Jump up ^ Loicano, Martin. National World War II Museum
Jump up ^ World War Ii Rationing On The U.S. Homefront
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Ration Coupons on the Home Front, 1942-1945 - Duke University Libraries Digital Collections
World War II Rationing on the U.S. homefront, illustrated - Ames Historical Society
Links to 1940s newspaper clippings on rationing, primarily World War II War Ration Books - Genealogy Today
Tax Rationing
Recipe for Victory:Food and Cooking in Wartime
Point Rationing of Foods - An animated illustration of the World War II point rationing system.
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