Shand, Bill

John [Otvos], Bill [Shand], and several others are plamiing a big sight-seeing trip tomorrow, but I guess I ll be content with just Christabel, Panama City, Balboa, Tivoli, Conmdu. 

Photographs by Bill Shand. Provided by Mrs. Rene Mills. 

Figure 5.3.B. NDRC off to work. Bob Brinton and Dave Volman. 1944. Photographs by Bill Shand. Provided by Mrs. Rene Mills.

Bob Brinton, Bill Shand, Bob Mills, Phil Hayward,... 

As Bill Shand was setting up equipment before an air-drop test, he was in commrxnication with the field leader about where to go next by way of a walky-talky. In the middle of an instruction. Bill said, Wait a minute. There is a boa constrictor in the path. The phone went silent for what seemed like a long time, and the field leader tried to reestabhsh the connection. Finally Bill came back on the line, saying, It got away. ... 

Figure 5.6.A. Major Tinkler, Captain Quate, Bill Shand with NDRC, at work together.

The NDRC people and army officers worked together, as illustrated by Figure 5.6.A. The Major, the Captain and Bill shand of NDRC were similarly dressed in work clothes and were all doing the same job. Bob Brinton was photographed in an almost impenetrable mangrove swamp in Figure 5.6.B. 

July 0 . Saturday night. Bill Shand became allergic to atabrine, was hospitalized, and switched to quinine. ... 

Bill Shand and Phil are slated to leave in 2 days, but I guess their plans include a stop at Mexico City where Shand will again try to break his neck climbing moimtains. 

In the late summer of 1944, W.A. Noyes, Jr. in Washington invited NDRC workers in Bushnell and on San Jose Island, Panama, to volunteer to go to New Guinea to join a chemical warfare station there. Robert Brinton and Bill Shand were the only volunteers. They traveled to New Guinea with a group of army officers, and they moved from station to station, presenting... 

Bill Shand, 1944, Caltech, NDRC. Photographer of Chapter 5. 

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