The Plating Industry in World War II.

The article discusses the history of the U.S. electroplating industry during World War II. It narrates the Annual Conventions of the American Electroplaters' Society (AES) held in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1942 and in Buffalo, New York in 1943. The article cites that the 1942 AES Conference centered on the growing scarcities of alloy platings and the development of substitutes. The 1943 AES Conference highlighted the use of plating as essential in the U.S. war effort, as mentioned in the presentation of William McCord of the War Production Board.