. Dahlgren. Dahlgren Laboratory. Early Work in Aviation 29. Admiral Braun controls a BG-1 at Dahlgren in 1935 during tests of a Sperry dive bombsight. You were, of course, an Air Officer. Yes. This was in tlie early period when we were developing our carrier capabilities. Yes. Did you have any association with the early carriers'? I had been in the first heavy dive bombing patrol squadron based on a carrier, and I also had patrol plane duty for horizontal bombing. Most of my first six years, though, as I said, were in big gunnery with battleships in Fire Control Divisions. That was something t
. Dahlgren. Dahlgren Laboratory. Early Work in Aviation 29. Admiral Braun controls a BG-1 at Dahlgren in 1935 during tests of a Sperry dive bombsight. You were, of course, an Air Officer. Yes. This was in tlie early period when we were developing our carrier capabilities. Yes. Did you have any association with the early carriers'? I had been in the first heavy dive bombing patrol squadron based on a carrier, and I also had patrol plane duty for horizontal bombing. Most of my first six years, though, as I said, were in big gunnery with battleships in Fire Control Divisions. That was something that Dahlgren was trying to assist in? They had a lot to do with, of course, all the guns the Navy used, and at that time up until World War II, all the guns were tested right here at the Naval Proving Ground. The Dahlgren Air Detail in those early days, in the 1920's, was. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original McCollum, Kenneth G. Dahlgren, Va. : Naval Surface Weapons Center
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