Wartime production demands led Hewlett-Packard’s workforce to grow from 3 employees in 1940 to around 200 by 1945. The combination of a national labor shortage and the company’s nondiscriminatory hiri ...

The war brought Hewlett-Packard into its first work on microwave technology through the Leopard project, a top secret program to disrupt enemy radar and protect Allied ships. The demands of the projec ...

Hewlett-Packard employees were invited to share in the company’s Army-Navy “E” Award with personalized certificates of appreciation.

Bill Hewlett spent most of the war in the Army Aviation Ordnance department, an area where his engineering skill could be put to use. In 1945, however, he was part of a small team that travelled to Ja ...

Just six years after Hewlett-Packard began in a garage, Dave Packard was addressing a good-sized crowd at the company’s annual Christmas party. Hewlett-Packard had around 200 employees by this point. ...

The 205A, seen here being tested by Dave Packard, was higher power than the company’s original 200A oscillator. With the demand for radio equipment soon to come from World War II, it was perhaps Hewle ...

Hewlett-Packard received the coveted Army-Navy “E” Award for excellence in wartime production four times for its work during World War II. Dave Packard accepted the first award on behalf of the compan ...

Bill visited Dave at Hewlett-Packard as often as he could while serving in the Army. Bill was a major when this picture was taken, but was a lieutenant colonel by the time of his discharge in 1945.

Dave Packard recruited Noel Eldred (right, shown here in 1954) to Hewlett-Packard during the war. Noel would be Dave’s right-hand man and head of operations while Bill Hewlett served in the military, ...

Early on, the company pioneered a “pass on” type of assembly line to maximize efficiency for war production. The new system would remain in place from that point forward.