Although the buy-back provision was an attractive proposition, D.W. Terms of the contracts that were cancelled called for the purchase by the government of all materials in process in order to soften any financial hardship. In the weeks following, the Onan company had millions of dollars of cancellations from the military. 14, 1945, with the unconditional surrender by Japan.
Fortunately not all of the war veterans would be returning at the same time, giving the Onans time to absorb them. There really was no assurance the total manpower requirements at the Onan company would equal the number of returning servicemen. The horrendous layoff problem was seriously compounded by the promise that all of the more than 400 Onan workers who had left during the war for military service would get their jobs back. The Onans dreaded the prospect of terminating as many as 2,000 of their loyal, hard-working employees as much or more than the thought that losing millions of dollars of orders overnight might destroy the company. They ranged from the very survival of the company to the tragic inevitability of laying off the majority of their workers. Conversion to manufacturing items for the civilian market again presented many problems for the Onans. It was obvious that as soon as the war ended, military requirements for Onan products would drop to practically zero overnight. There had been no civilian production since early in 1942. They had nearly 2,500 employees working around the clock, all doing the same thing.-.producing generator sets for use by the military. Long before the actual end of the war, the Onans knew conditions at their company would be changing drastically. They as much as anyone wanted to see the end to the killing that had been going on throughout the world for so many years, but the Onan’s knew the months ahead would be extremely tough ones for their company. They, too, were elated over the long-awaited victory by the allied forces.
Bud and Bob, celebrated the end of the longest and costliest war in U.S. While Many Americans danced in the street: when World War II came to an end in 1945, D.W.
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