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Women assisting in range operations during World War II. 



Virginia about where they would put the road down here. They wanted to run 

 it straight down through the reservation, but we made them put a curve in it to 

 keep it a little farther away from our test area. I remember I insisted at that time 

 that we buy the land 300 yards north of the road, not that we'd ever use it for 

 anything, but if we didn't buy it, it would fill up with commercial hot dog stands, 

 gas stations, etc. Just as soon as we would have had everything fixed up well, we 

 would get complaints from those people about the noise, and fragments, and so 

 forth. So we might as well get both sides of the road and control it; otherwise, 

 we'd have that nuisance coming back on us. That nice one mile we own there 

 has kept us free of commercial business, and saved us a lot of trouble. The 

 people living around the Main Gate have been there so long that they don't 

 even hear the noise anymore. When they put Highway 30 1 in there, part of the 

 agreement was that the Naval Provmg Ground, at that time, had the right to 



