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Figure 47. Maj. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis, Chief of Engineers, talking with BEB President and 

 Resident Member Col. Earl E. Gesler, at the BEB's office in Washington, D.C., 5 

 February 1953. 



Figure 48. Gen. Sturgis and Board members discussing aspects of the agency's research 

 program with BEB staff. The BEB's 85-foot wave tank is in the foreground. Left 

 to right: M. P. O'Brien, Thomdike Saville, Richard O. Eaton, Lorenz G. Straub, 

 George M. Watts, Thorndike Saville, Jr., Maj. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis, Col. Earl 

 E. Gesler, Herman P. Van Eckhardt, and Morrison Essick. 



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