“Corps”45 pages
- p. 40 …debris, sometimes along
with his Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) subordinate, Lewis Rickett, who, like
Marcel, is…
- p. 45 …assembly) were located at the Army
Signal Corps Museum at Fort Monmouth and were obtained. A…
- p. 75 …and a Counter Intelligence Corps Officer, Sheridan Cavitt,
went to the ranch to inspect the material…
- p. 105 …Colonel Oliver LaFarge, Air Reserve Corps,
at Santa Fe, made atrangernents for Colonel Blanchard to visit…
- p. 159 …or unlawful inducement. ~
~I was a Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) Special Agent for the US Army AU…
- p. 163 …the Army Air Corps... right.
RW: When did you get transferred to Roswell, Sir?
SC: I…
- p. 166 …activity
like that, I was Counter Intelligence Corps, this didn't have anything to do with…
- p. 168 …There was nobody else out there from CIC or
Counter Intelligence Corps that you knew of…
- p. 169 …did, in the Air Force; the Air Corps. I think they wanted to ... they were having…
- p. 170 …six) "was an agent in the counterintelligence corps. He accompanied another
intelligence officer on the initial…
- p. 172 …Not
that you personally did, but the Army Air Corps in general: "The trip to the…
- p. 213 …Previously, I was
appointed as the laboratory chief in the Signal Corps as an Air Force…
- p. 214 …Some of the contractors lined up were not quite in concert with typical Signal
Corps practices…
- p. 217 …One of the individuals,
Sheridan Cavitt, who at that time was a Counter-Intelligence
Corps officer…
- p. 224 …Colonel Duffy was assigned to
extract meteorological.equipment out of the Signal_Corps in 1943.
There…
- p. 225 …Colonel Duffy talked to the field
artillery that was procuring through the Signal Corps, gun-laying…
- p. 236 …During WWII, the
·signal Corps had laid on them the requirement to develop a
constant level…
- p. 246 …V-2s and
other rockets the Ordnance Corps people were flying over at White
Sands. So…
- p. 264 …I knew the Signal Corps designation, the SCR-584s and
270-s, etc., but this was…
- p. 268 …We talked with the Signal Corps up at Fort Monmouth and
that's where we got…
- p. 274 …I was an Air Force officer
assigned to the Signal Corps as part of Colonel Duffy…
- p. 277 …Signal Corps and Army Air Force?
A: All the officers that I had on my staff…
- p. 278 …It was the Signal Corps' responsibility to procure those targets;
it was not the responsibility of…
- p. 279 …He got into a considerable amount of, shall we say, controversy with the Signal Corps
because…
- p. 299 …a) US Army Signal Corps Museum, Ft Gordon GA
Mr Ted Wise, Director, DSN 780-2818…
- p. 318 …Maj J~sse
Marcel, and two Counterintelligence Corps Agents, Capt Sheridan Cavitt and
MSgt Lewis Rickett…
- p. 320 …Liaison Officer to the US
Army Signal Corps, with primary duties for securing meteorological equipment
from…
- p. 517 …A modified radiosonde-type aneroid pressure capsule (Signal
Corps ML 310-/) has been the basic sensing…
- p. 519 Corps ML-310/ radiosonde aneroid unit, a metal helix on a
rotating cylinder of insulating material…
- p. 731 …Army Air Corps Stratosphere Flight
of 1934 in the Balloon 'Explorer'", Contributed Tec~ical Papers of…
- p. 761 …4· Richard Hassard, a forEr Signal Corps Officer was hired
because ot his general knowledge of…
- p. 763 …Griffith
11/7/II:> Visking Corp.
Chicago, Ill.
Mr. Cahn
12/4/11:> Visking Corp.
Chicago…
- p. 764 12/16/46 Celanese Celluloid Corp.
180 }ladison J, venue
New York, ~i. i..
12/17…
- p. 765 …Smith
1/3/47 Visking Corp.
Chicago, Ill.
Att: J. L. Lane
1/8/47 Watson…
- p. 766 …1/21/47 Shellmar·Projects Corp.
Mt. Vernon, Ohio
1/21/47 Milprint Inc.
Milwaukee, Wise…
- p. 767 …toPermission withheld.
place subcontract with
Unexcelled Chern. Corp.
for the fabrication of
be.lloons.
Request th…
- p. 768 …J •
3/7/47 Plax Corp.
Hartford, Conn.
Mr. R. E• .Ames
Same recuest as letter…
- p. 769 3/19/47 Unexcelled Chem. Corp.
New Brunswick, N.J.
Att: 2~r. Tegen
3/';:1…
- p. 781 …Plastics & Packaging No
1-f.J.lwa.ukee 1, Wisconsin
Celanese Plastics Corp. Plastics & Packaging No…
- p. 783 …As the motor switched modulator ~us already i~ experimental
state of manufacture for the Signal Corps…
- p. 810 …date, talked to Lt Dyer of Signal Corps regarding for tomorrow
firing. Chantz and Bill went…
- p. 811 …Delayed trip to Silver City to talk over Signal Corps
Communication with Peoples, Ball this PM…
- p. 812 …Left Alamogordo about 9 am, Chantz, Porter and myself, 2 Signal Corps
men along. Stopped at…
- p. 908 …As presently designed, the modulator contains a
standard Signal Corps ML-310E radiosonde aneroid
unit, a…
- p. 981 …Army Signal Corps, Saipan, in
1944. Photo Courtesy of Mrs. Emily Duffy.
Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus…
New York University, in accordance with contractual requirements, produced
monthly progress reports, technical reports, and final reports detailing the VC).rious
aspects of the balloon and telemetering research. In addition, Crary maintlained
a detailed journal of his work throughout his professional career to incluc,le the
summer of 1947. The following discussion is based on these two documents and
interviews with Moore, who was present on all three of the Alamogordq field
trips, and, with Trakowski, who was present at the Alamogordo II and II. field
trips.
NOTE: Technical Report No. 1, Table VII, "Summary of NYU Constant,Level
Balloon Flights," and Technical Report No. 93.02, Constant Level Balloons, S¢ction
3, "Summary of Flights," do not fully account for all balloons flown durir).g the
initial stages of the contract to include the Alamogordo I field trip. Absent' from
the reports are service flight nos. 2, 3, and 4. Flight no. 2 was flown on April18,
1947, at Bethlehem, PA, in an attempt to obtain acoustical data from the explosion
of 5,000 tons of TNT by the British on the German island of Helgoland.18
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NYU
flight no. 3 was flown on May 29, followed by NYU flight no. 4 on June 4., Both
launched from Alamogordo AAF.
ALAMOGORDO I (May 28, 1947-June 7, 1947)
The first NYU "field trip" departed Olmstead Field, Middletown, PA, by C~7 for
Alamogordo AAF on May 31, 1947, arriving on June 1, 1947.19 Present Olll this
flight was C.B. Moore, NYU Project Engineer, Charles S. Schneider, NYU Project
Director, and other supporting staff members from both NYU and Watson
Laboratories. A.P. Crary, along with other personnel from Watson LaborCjltory,
were already present in Alamogordo, but they did not conduct any bc:dloon
operations. During this time, Crary and several technicians detonated ground
explosives, or "shots," for sound-wave generation purposes, on the nearby White
Sands Proving Ground. These detonations were monitored by ground-based GR3
and GR8 sound ranging equipment at locations in New Mexico and West T~xas. 20
On May 28, the advance party of the balloon group arrived by B-17.21 On May
29, the advance team made the first launch for Project MOGUL from Alamogordo
(NYU flight no. 3). The equipment carried on this flight was identifi¢d as
essentially the same as that carried on NYU flight no. 2 (Atch 3 ). 22 NYU flight no.
4 was launched on June 4, with a configuration the same as on flight nos. 2 and
3. Crary's diary indicated that flight no. 4 consisted of a "cluster of (meteor(>logi-
cal) balloons" and a "regular sonobuoy."23 Presumably, flight no. 3 was config-
ured the same.
18. Research Division, College of Engineering, NYU, Special Report No. 1, Constant Level ~alloon,
May 1947 (hereafter NYU, Special Report No. 1), p. 27.
19. Personal journal of Albert P. Crary, p. 13.
20. Ibid., pp. 4-16.
21. Ibid., p. 13.
22. NYU, Progress Report No. 6, Sect II, p. 5.
23. Crary personal journal, p. 12.