Dahlgren 



Admiral Withington (at head of table) with Bureau of Ordnance Staff, fune 1957. 



were there for a shorter time did not bring their families. This was an eventful 

 and happy experience, except for my family problems with a pregnant and not 

 very well wife. I had a very long, interesting, and fruitful connection with 

 Dahlgren in 1930 and 1931. 



I have one story about Dahlgren that might be of interest. During our 

 residence there, in postgraduate days, the art of dive-bombing was first being 

 developed. Our child was playing with our dog in the road between our house 

 and the house across the street when a 500-pound water-filled bomb fell about 

 100 feet away, splashing the child and dog with dirt and uprooting an apple 

 tree. The pilot had to let the bomb go or crash with it, so he let the bomb go, 

 knowing that it would not be in the target area. Fortunately, there was no 

 damage done. The pilot was not very happy about this and neither was I, but 

 such things do occur during the development of new techniques with weapons, 

 and they will continue to occur. 



In the earlier days at Dahlgren, one of the primary activities concerned naval 

 aviation. There was a short airstrip which was adequate for the planes at that 

 time. Unfortunately, the airstrip was not adequate in length to support modern 



