1940 WWII Tennessee Ordnance Plant Construction Employee ID Badge Whitehead Hoag

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This is a 1940 Nickel over Brass Employee Photo ID Badge, formerly worn by Dupont’s Memphis Construction Employee # 2717 during the construction of the Tennessee Powder Works/Ordnance Plant.
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Sometimes called the Memphis, or Millington, Ordnance Plant, this huge explosives manufactory had its origin in 1940, when the Anglo-French Purchasing Board formed the Tennessee Powder Company to produce munitions for the Allied war effort.
After the French surrendered, the British assumed control and contracted with E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company to manage the construction and operation of the facility.
The six-thousand-acre site north of Memphis produced “smokeless powder” (actually a high-explosive cake, or “guncotton”) for small arms and artillery, as well as TNT
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Construction began in June 1940 and proceeded on a round-the-clock schedule with a peak workforce of over nine thousand black and white workers. In early 1941 the plant operated with fifteen hundred employees and shipped its first lots of explosive.
In May 1941 the U.S. government acquired the plant and later changed the name from Tennessee Powder Works to Chickasaw Ordnance Works.”
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Badge is in original condition – UNCLEANED.
Badge measures 1-5/8” x 1-5/16”, was manufactured by Whitehead & Hoag, and fastens with a locking “c” clasp.
The back of the badge is stamped “WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO.”, “NEWARK, N.J.”, “PAT’D ‘21”.
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