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First impact at the Proof Battery, August 4, 1941. Top roiv (right to left): CDR H.D. 

 Hoffman (Proof Officer), LCDR W. S. Parsons (Experimental Officer), LT. H. S. 

 Hamly (Plate Fuze Officer), CAPT D. 1. Hedrick (Inspector of Ordnance in Charge), 

 LCDR C. A. Buchanan (Plate Battery Officer), H. S.fenkins, C. B. Peters, Ed Worrell. 

 Front row (right to left): H. Chinn,]. B. Rawlette, F. M. Marshall, W. A. Rose,f. H. 

 McClanahan, A. A. Rogers, E. B. Williams, f. F. White, Ch. Gunner Krupa( standing), 

 W. F.fenkins, A. G. White, W. W. Clare, L. V. Morgan, G. B. Elliott, I. M. Fritter, 

 George Gamer, F. B. Staples. 



much all in what was known as an Experimental Department under the Ex- 

 perimental Officer. The Experimental Officer was also responsible, in those 

 early days, for all those operations at the Plate Battery, which was the Terminal 

 Ballistics Range, where all the projectile firings against armor plate were 

 conducted. 



The foremen, of course, carried quite a lot of heft, and most all of these per 

 diem people had to recognize that a foreman was boss. He had a lot of 

 authority, and he was allowed a lot of latitude. There's the old saying, "If you're 

 going to give a guy the responsibility for getting a job done, you've got to give 

 him the authority that goes with it." He had the power to give and to take away, 

 and if you didn't leave a certain amount of that with him, some of those char- 



