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Page 19 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution...
Page 10 - August 1943 when he was appointed Chief of Staff, 5th Air Force Service Command. In September 1944 he assumed command of the Advanced Headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, and supported theater operations from bases in Hollandia, New Guinea, Leyte, Manila, and Okinawa.
Page 94 - NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
Page 90 - I worked for him, and if I had to do it all over again I would do the same thing — only I would try to help him stop his drinking.
Page 11 - Stoller is a native of New York. He earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the College of the City of...
Page 45 - ... September. Public Service, Oppenheimer received the Medal of Merit from President Truman in 1946, and thereafter served the government in many advisory capacities. As a member of the Lilienthal committee he devised the plan that became the official US policy on international control of atomic energy. He was chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1946 to 1952. This committee did much to develop the atomic military capabilities of the US and to support pure...
Page 2 - Thomas A. Sturm, The USAF Scientific Advisory Board: Its First Twenty Years. 1944-1964 (Washington, DC: US Air Force Historical Division Liaison Office, 1967); Nick A.
Page 12 - ... the organization has increased ten-fold over what we had in the old Los Angeles field office. General Welling is authorized 32 officers and 532 civilians. He has many of our best officers and civilians to help him in the conduct of this important program. In Los Angeles, in addition to CEBMCO, are the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, which handles design of these facilities, and the Air Materiel Command's Ballistic Missile Center, which is responsible...
Page 94 - OSD — Office of the Secretary of Defense OSRD— Office of Scientific Research and Development...
Page 27 - Roosevelt to head the National Defense Research Committee, which later became the Office of Scientific Research and Development, wrote that the NACA "research for a generation laid the groundwork for aeronautical advance in this country.

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