Army Air Force

Aircraft Reactors. As early as World War II, the U.S. Army Air Force considered the use of a nuclear reactor for the propulsion of aircraft (62—64). In 1946 the nuclear energy for propulsion of aircraft (NEPA) program was set up at Oak Ridge, under Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation. Basic theoretical and experimental studies were carried out. The emphasis was on materials. A high temperature reactor was built and operated successfiiUy. 

Wesley F. Craven and James L. Cate (eds.). The Army Air Forces in World War II, 1 vols. 

Webster and Frankland, Strategic Air Offensive, vol. I, p. 182 Craven and Cate (eds.). Army Air Forces, vol. Ill, p. 596. The Eighth Air Force was based in the United Kingdom and the Fifteenth in Italy. 

Craven and Cate (eds.). Army Air Forces in World War //, vol. V, pp. 614-17, 722. British Mission to Japan, The Effects of the Atomic Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (London HMSO, 1946). 

JAAF Joint Army-Air Force perchlorate, Na nitrate and TNT... 

UNSCR UNSCOM USAAF WMD United Nations Security Council Resolution United Nations Special Commission United States Army Air Force Weapons of Mass Destruction... 

Much of the research described was earried out while the author was on the staff of the Institute for the Study of Metals at the University of Chicago. It was supported in part by U. S. Army Air Force Contract AF-33 (038)-6534. 

I. Langmuir and K. B. Blodgett, U.S. Army Air Forces Technical Report 5418, February 19, 1946, U.S. Department Commerce, Office Technical Services PB 27565. 

Langmuir, I., and Blodgett, U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Rqmrt 5418, (tUS. Dept. Comm., Off. Tech. Serv., Rep. PB27565) (1946). 

Fr sporting propellant Joliet Arsenal, Joliet, 111 Joint Army-Air Force January... 

United States, Department of the Army, Air Force. (1958). Capabilities and employment of toxic chemicals. Washington, DC Author. 

I was in the Navy. When the War started, in 1941, I was working as a statistician in the Census Bureau as a civilian, but I soon transferred to the Army Air Forces. I went to work as a civilian instructor in radar and electronics. That was the only war that I felt comfortable in. In 1943, I submitted an application to the Navy for a commission to become an officer, and on this occasion they accepted my application. (On a previous occasion I had been rejected because I wore glasses.) Instead of active service, however, they sent me to school for another 9 months to learn... 

The entry of the petroleum companies into the polymer/petrochemical revolution proved a critically important development and required significant upgrading of their technological capabilities. The entry can be dated by the delivery of experimental high-octane gasoline in 1934 by Shell to the Army Air Force at Wright Field. Within a year. Shell, Jersey Standard, and Phillips... 

The tremendous potentialities of biological warfare in the future demand that the necessary tactics and employment in the field be worked out well in advance so that such means may be used immediately and effectively once a decision to do so is made. It is essential that Chemical Officers on the staffs of divisions and higher units, including equivalent Army Air Force elements, be in a position to advise their Commanders relative to the capability, limitations and means of protection against this new method of attack. Further, they must be able to prepare suitable offensive and defensive plans and to supervise such training of troops in these methods as may be required.114... 

Army Air Force (latter the Air Force), Dayton, OH, USA issues Technical Reports on the BT-15 airplane that was made of RP. An example is the report entitled Molded Glass Fiber Sandwich Fuselage for BT-15 Airplane issued 8 November. 

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