Investigation of the Progress
of the War Effort
Hearings
Before the
Committee on Naval Affairs
House of Representatives
Seventy-Eighth Congress
First Session
Pursuant to
H. Res. 30
A Resolution Authorizing and Directing
an Investigation of the Progress
of the War Effort
(Renegotiation of War Contracts)
Volume 2
June 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, and 30, 1943
Printed for the use of the Committee on Naval Affairs
Received
Aug 31 1943
Defoe Shipbuilding Co.

Naval Affairs Investigating Committee

Carl Vinson, Georgia, Chairman

PATRICK H. DREWRY, Virginia

LEONARD W. SCHUETZ, Illinois

WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Washington

LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Texas

MICHAEL J. BRADLEY, Pennsylvania

BEVERLY M. VINCENT, Kentucky

ED V. IZAC, California

LANSDALE G. SASSCER, Maryland

JAMES J. HEFFERNAN, New York

L. MENDEL RIVERS, South Carolina

F. EDWARD HÉBERT, Louisiana

JOHN E. FOGARTY, Rhode Island

WINDER R. HARRIS, Virginia

CAMERON MORRISON, North Carolina

MELVIN J. MAAS, Minnesota

JAMES W. MOTT, Oregon

W. STERLING COLE, New York

GEORGE J. BATES, Massachusetts

WILLIAM E. HESS, Ohio

JOHN Z. ANDERSON, California

JAMES WOLFENDEN, Pennsylvania

WILLIAM W. BLACKNEY, Michigan

WILLIAM H. WHEAT, Illinois

WARD JOHNSON, California

ROBERT A. GRANT, Indiana

MARGARET CHASE SMITH, Maine

ANTHONY J. DIMOND, Alaska

BOLÍVAR PAGÁN, Puerto Rico

JOSEPH B. FARRINGTON, Hawaii

ROBERT E. KLINE, JR., General Counsel

RICHARD H. WELLS, Special Counsel

LOUISE K. BENTON, Clerk

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About this archive

The published hearings are a 1,311-page bound document. This archive includes only the testimony of Harry J. Defoe, managing partner, Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich.

Testimony on this site (printed volume page numbers):

Each link opens that section of the transcript. Names and pagination match the published hearings.

Section 1 — Testimony Printed pages 606–615 · Harry J. Defoe, managing partner, Defoe Shipbuilding Co. Section 2 — Testimony Printed pages 618–628 (session resumes on p. 617) · Harry J. Defoe only; same pages continue with other witnesses in print.