Sinclair's most conspicuous contribution to the war effort was the delivery of 100-octane fuel for airplanes.  The entire industry's pre-war national output of this critical combat necessity  was only 25,000 barrels a day. Sinclair alone constructed an identical volume during the first two war years. This record made Sinclair one of the largest producers of 100-octane gasoline.

The refineries also were important makers of military oils and greases, supplying 42 million gallons in 1944. Under the lash of war, many new demands were met by Sinclair to answer the needs of arctic and desert performance, six-miles high altitudes and frictions never before encountered in jeeps, tanks and submarines.

A butadiene plant was built and operated for the U.S. Government to provide the raw materials for synthetic rubber.  This achievement together with the know-how obtained in the production of  polymers, codimer, isobutane, toluene, aviation alkylate and exotic rearrangements of the versatile hydrocarbon molecule, gave Sinclair its start in the rich  postwar field of petrochemicals.

An unsensational but equally vital contribution was the supply of 348 million gallons of navy fuel in 1944 and delivery of 450 million gallons of regular grade gasolines for military and government use.

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