[russfink]

[1] is excellent, thank you! It leads to another question, how did it come to Eisenhower’s attention that this is what was needed?

And [2] promises that answer. Before reading that, I was thinking some mechanic, or perhaps a farm hand turned logistics sergeant, had to see the problem and know that a special type of grease was the answer. Then, how to communicate that up the chain, when the bosses might not know about engines in that way?

I feel this is the struggle of innovation, repeated once more but in a literal life and death context.

I’d love to know more about that part of the story.