Description

Company O, Ordnance Officer Candidate School — Class 40
Ordnance Officer Candidate School (OCS) • World War II •

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Document Overview
Published in 1942 by the Army and Navy Publishing Co., Inc. of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this is the class yearbook of Company O, Class 40, of the Ordnance Officer Candidate School at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. It covers the company’s roughly thirteen-week training cycle — from arrival and the rigors of daily instruction through washout boards, field training, and the final commissioning ceremony — and includes candidate photographs, platoon rosters, individual biographies, and a historical essay on the development of ordnance and armored vehicles. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original booklet.

Campaigns: Stateside training only — no combat deployment is recorded; the unit was an officer candidate training company.

Commanders: 1st Lt. Daniel A. Torrence (Commanding); 2nd Lt. James H. Reilly (Executive Officer)

Camp publication: The Aberdeen Proving Groundhog

Table of Contents

Cadre and Command Staff
Company Activities
Keeping Fit to Fight
First Platoon
Second Platoon
Third Platoon
Fourth Platoon
Fifth Platoon
Personnel Biographies
Trainasium and Field Training
Fire Control Instrument Class
Ordnance and Artillery Instruction
Graduation
History of Ordnance and Armored Vehicles

“The search for perfection is too often the enemy of the good.”
— Company O, Class 40 yearbook, Ordnance Officer Candidate School, 1942