Early Work in Aviation 



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Admiral Braun controls a BG-1 at Dahlgren in 1935 during tests 

 of a Sperry dive bombsight. 



You were, of course, an Air Officer. 

 Yes. 



This was in tlie early period when we were developing our carrier capabilities. 

 Yes. 



Did you have any association with the early carriers'? 



I had been in the first heavy dive bombing patrol squadron based on a carrier, 

 and I also had patrol plane duty for horizontal bombing. Most of my first six 

 years, though, as I said, were in big gunnery with battleships in Fire Control 

 Divisions. 



That was something that Dahlgren was trying to assist in? 



They had a lot to do with, of course, all the guns the Navy used, and at that 

 time up until World War II, all the guns were tested right here at the Naval 

 Proving Ground. The Dahlgren Air Detail in those early days, in the 1 920's, was 



