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Dr. Russell H. Lyddane was Dahlgren's Technical Director 

 from 1956 until 1964. 



areas throughout the war, partly because there just wasn't time. While the war 

 was on, one wasn't thinking about after the war; one was thinking about just 

 getting the war over with — then we'll think about what we are going to do next. 

 But it was perfectly obvious what was going to happen, and it did happen. 

 When the war was over, the proof and test work went down to almost nothing. 

 This was Navy-wide, and that was when the difficulties of the Navaf-Gufl 

 Factory started. 



The Gun Factory did a tremendous job during the war in turning out 

 millions of rounds of 20mm projectiles, etc. At the end of the war, nobody 

 wanted any 20mm projectiles. The only thing anybody could do was experi- 

 mental work — R&D; and if you couldn't adapt to that, you were doomed. 

 That's what doomed the Gun Factory. 



However, Dahlgren retained — as one very major factor — the ballistics table 

 work that it had been doing during the war, which was the genesis of the 

 computation and exterior ballistics work. Historically, Dahlgren had the re- 



