Archive image from page 80 of Dahlgren (1977). Dahlgren dahlgren00mcco Year: 1977 Development of the Armor and Projectile Laboratory 71 —'««1>:A;;,;; Armor and Projectile Laboratory in the 1930': February 1942, and Loeb was gone. So was Thompson. We lost him to the bombsight people. The Norden Company? Right. He went to Norden as Director of Research. / understand that you were de facto Chief Scientist, or Technical Director, as far aj responsibilities were concerned at that time. That's right. I was Chief Scientist then. What size staff did you have in 1942? I think the staff consisted
Archive image from page 80 of Dahlgren (1977). Dahlgren dahlgren00mcco Year: 1977 Development of the Armor and Projectile Laboratory 71 —'««1>:A;;,;; Armor and Projectile Laboratory in the 1930': February 1942, and Loeb was gone. So was Thompson. We lost him to the bombsight people. The Norden Company? Right. He went to Norden as Director of Research. / understand that you were de facto Chief Scientist, or Technical Director, as far aj responsibilities were concerned at that time. That's right. I was Chief Scientist then. What size staff did you have in 1942? I think the staff consisted of about eight or ten people when I arrived. There were a couple of mechanics, a secretary, and about a half-dozen officers. You had been sent back to work on spectra graphic equipment? Yes, I was very active at that time in spectrochemistry in steel. I developed a process by which we could analyze steel samples very quickly. We could take a sample out of the steel foundry and have an analysis in 30 seconds. The Navy wanted a set of my equipment, and that's what really brought me to Dahlgren. Did you have any civilian scientists working for you? The staff was primarily military—these fellows all came in as reserve officers. I remember that around 1945 I had one chemist, one civilian metallurgist, and
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