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10, NDRC. This co-operative venture insured avoidance of duplication of 

 efTort. The Office at Edgewood Arsenal and the Technical Aides in Wash- 

 ington co-operated in directing the program; and personnel began to be 

 interchanged on projects between the Service installations and NDRC con- 

 tractors. Under the arrangement approximately fifty men from Division 10 

 worked on Army posts at one time or another for periods of a few weeks 

 to more than two years. 



During the spring of 1943, this system of unified control was extended 

 by placing the Chief of Division 9 on the staff of the Chief, Technical 

 Division, so that a large fraction of the NDRC projects pertaining to chem- 

 ical warfare formed part of one program with that of Technical Divi- 

 sion, CWS. 



During the spring of 1944, the British Mission to the United States sug- 

 gested that the large amount of field experimentation being conducted in 

 the United Kingdom, in Canada, in the United States, in Panama, in 

 Australia, and in India should be co-ordinated. Diverse conclusions had been 

 drawn concerning the behavior of chemical warfare materiel, and no effort 

 had been made to fill in gaps in existing knowledge consistently. As a result 

 of this suggestion, the Project Co-ordination Staff with representation from 

 NDRC Divisions 9 and 10, the CWS, the United Kingdom, Canada and 

 Austraha was started at Edgewood Arsenal in April 1944. This StafI pub- 

 lished a series of reports, the last one of which was a comprehensive survey 

 of the effectiveness of chemical warfare materiel. It made recommendations 

 through proper channels concerning experiments to be conducted at the 

 various field stations throughout the British Commonwealth of Nations 

 and in the United States. Finally, it was instrumental in establishing a Far 

 Eastern Technical Unit attached to General Mac Arthur's Headquarters; 

 this unit contained both Army officers and OSRD personnel. 



This arrangement in the field of chemical warfare illustrates probably 

 the closest co-operation between civilian scientists and a technical service in 

 the course of OSRD operations, although it is paralleled by the close rela- 

 tions between Division 6 and the Tenth Fleet which was mentioned in 

 Chapter IX in connection with the Office of Field Service. 



Relations with the Army Air Forces 



Co-operation between OSRD and the Army Air Forces was effective 

 though uneven, ranging from the full collaboration which held in the work 

 on radar to breaks in continuity resulting in large measure from the anom- 

 alous situation of some Air Force agencies which had long been expected 

 both to engage in development work of their own and to evaluate develop- 

 ments performed by others. This was the situation of Wright Field, for 

 example, which the Liaison Officer between Wright Field and NDRC 



