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appointed as Assistant to the Director. He was especially valuable in follow- 

 ing particular assignments for the Director. A few other persons received 

 appointments of limited duration as Assistants to the Director. They are 

 mentioned where appropriate in connection with the operations for which 

 they received appointments. 



The Advisory Council 



The original members of the Advisory Council were Bush, as Chairman; 

 Conant, for NDRC; Richards, for CMR; Harvey H. Bundy, representing 

 the War Department; and Jerome C. Hunsaker, representing the Navy and 

 the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Bundy was 

 an attorney serving as Special Assistant to the Secretary of War. His close 

 relations with Secretary Stimson were invaluable at times in getting action 

 out of the very complex organization of the War Department. Hunsaker 

 was an aeronautical engineer on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology who had succeeded Bush as Chairman of NACA. He was 

 also serving briefly as Co-ordinator of Research and Development in the 

 Office of the Secretary of the Navy until the proper man could be found to 

 assume that newly established post. When Rear Admiral Julius A. Purer 

 succeeded Hunsaker as Co-ordinator of Research and Development, he was 

 designated as the Navy member on the Advisory Council in December 1941. 

 The effect of this designation was to bring the Council up to its full strength 

 as Hunsaker remained as the NACA member. The membership of the 

 Council remained unchanged until near the end of the war. Rear Admiral 

 A. H. Van Keuren, Director of the Naval Research Laboratory, succeeded 

 Admiral Purer in July 1945, and was in turn succeeded by Commodore 

 H. A. Schade in November 1945, after the latter had succeeded him as 

 Director of the Laboratory. With Secretary Stimson's resignation as Secre- 

 tary of War after the end of hostilities, Mr. Bundy also resigned and was 

 succeeded as a member of the Advisory Council by Brigadier General 

 William A. Borden, Director of the New Developments Division, who was 

 in turn succeeded by Colonel Gervais W. Trichel on April 3, 1946. 



The Advisory Council held a total of twenty-eight meetings — ten of 

 them between August 8 and December 31, 1941; thirteen during the calen- 

 dar year 1942; two in 1943; two in 1944; and one in 1945. 



During the first eighteen months of OSRD operations there were a num- 

 ber of important relations with the Services which required top-level han- 

 dling. The Advisory Council performed an important function in this 

 connection as the members were in a position within their respective organ- 

 izations to get needed information or to press for a particular bit of action, 

 the absence of which was holding up a program. By the end of 1942, the 



