Army-Navy "E" Award Winners / Recipients in World War Two
The complete list!

This page updated 6-27-2020.

The thirteen pages below contain the complete listing of all World War Two Army-Navy "E" Award recipients, not just those in the U.S. Auto Industry.  Winners are listed alphabetically by state.  This is the only complete listing of all Army-Navy "E" Award recipients published on the internet. 

•  Introduction, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado

• Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois

• Illinois, Indiana

• Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland

• Maryland. Massachusetts

• Michigan, Minnesota

• Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey

• New Jersey, New Mexico, New York

• New York, North Carolina

• Ohio

• Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania

• Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington

• West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Hawaii -  All Construction Company "E" Award Winners

• Army-Navy E Award Images

This is the Army-Navy "E" flag that a company received when it won the award.  It could then be flown on the company flag pole.  If the the company continued its outstanding work on meeting and exceeding production schedules, a star would be added to the flag about every six months.  This was the combined the separate awards and flags the Navy and Army had before coming together on a unified award and flag.

Before July 1942, both the Navy and Army had their own individual production awards.  This is what the Navy "E" flag looked like.  This particular Navy "E" has an interesting story.  It was presented to the RCA plant in Bloomington, IN for its excellent work on the top-secret VT proximity fuze during World War Two.  Because of the fuze's top-secret status, RCA Bloomington and the other five locations that built the fuzes were ineligible to win an award during the course of the war.  Part of the award ceremony when the "E" Award was presented would have revealed what the employees at the VT plants were making.  The project was so secret that the employees making the fuzes were not told what the final products were, nor what they were used for.  At RCA Bloomington, IN, the employees called the project "Madame X."  The secrecy of the VT program was never compromised during World War Two, unlike the Manhattan Project.  The VT program was the only top-secret program that maintained its secrecy for the duration of the war.

The U.S. Navy presented this flag to the RCA Bloomington, IN plant after the end of World War to honor the plant and the workers for their important work on the VT program.  The VT fuze became public knowledge in September 1945.  This flag is now in the possession of the Monroe County History Center in Bloomington, IN.  Photo courtesy of the Monroe County Historical Center added 6-27-2020.

The following documents shed light on how a company won the Army-Navy "E" Award.  Until I found these documents, I had assumed that the military decided without input from the companies.  However, this is incorrect.  The first two 1942 documents below show that an individual company needed to make application for the award.  Then it was up to several levels within the military to decide who won the award.  The third and fourth documents, while still showing a company was responsible for initiating an application for the award shows a shift in attitude of the Navy.  The Navy had decided there were too many awards being given out.  Therefore, the Navy started to assure that its procurement officers did a better job of recommending only the best suppliers.  It is unknown if the Army policy also changed at this time.

How to Win the Army-Navy Production Award ("E" Award):  The document below is a letter dated September 9, 1942, which was sent to both the Navy and Army suppliers, explaining the general conditions needed to win the "E" Award.  This gives a background to the award and the different steps an application goes through for a company to win an award.  Note the language indicating that the "Army and Navy are eager to recognize..."

Outline to be followed in preparing Application for the Army-Navy Production Award ("E" Award):  The document below is a letter dated September 9, 1942 which was sent to suppliers of both the Navy and Army providing an outline to follow to apply for the "E" Award.  This outline provides the actual information required to win the award. 

Navy Board for Production Awards letter dated January 12, 1943:  This letter is the output from a meeting indicating that it has been too easy to win the "E" Award.  It defines the requirements for recommending of a company for the award. 

Navy Bureau of Ships letter on Production Awards letter dated January 27, 1943:  The procedure outlined in the letter above rolls down to the Bureau of Ships.

Letter to Cummins Engine Company dated July 17, 1945:  This letter answers a long standing question I have had since the start of this website, which is whether the stars were sent to the companies for them to add to the flag themselves, or did they get a new flag.  This letter shows they got a new flag with each award.  Also note that the date format has changed in the letters to the current military dating format of "day: month: year."  This apparently changed during the war as the earlier letters were all "month: day: year." 

  Photo courtesy of Cummins Inc. added 2-4-2020.