42 Dahlgren 



It ivouldseem that Dahlgren was pretty fa)- removed from civilization for younger officers. 



A lot of them didn't like it. Of course, they always liked to take a car and see 

 how fast they could get to Washington. One young fellow made it in 3 hours one 

 time. They said he was going to kill himself. He later did in an airplane crash, 

 but not here. 



Now, when I was here in the 1930's, in addition to the MARK 15 Bombsight, 

 we had a low-altitude attachment which went with the MARK 15 Bombsight 

 and was intended to be used for bombing submarines. You could get down low 

 where the bombsight could still compute the dropping angle to release the 

 bomb. You could also use it for navigation. Excellent for navigating. Then, in 

 addition to that, we had the stabilized bombing approach equipment which 

 went with the bombsight. That was an automatic pilot which I always thought 

 was wonderful. While I was here, I was in on the testing of it from the 

 beginning. We had to write up the pamphlet on low-altitude bombing tactics. 

 Then when I left here and went to the Fleet, I went to the Patrol Plane 

 Squadron. We had the MARK 15 Bombsight, and that, with the stabilized 

 bombing approach equipment, was a wonderful pilot. All you had to do was 

 make corrections to the changes in the course and you would stay right on the 

 course. 



In 1924, Admiral]. J. Balkntine, then a Lieutenant, guidedthis N-9 seaplane in thefirst 

 radio-controlled flight. 



