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The grand experiment at Inyokern : narrative of the Naval Ordnance Test Station during the Second World War and the immediate postwar years / by J.D. Gerrard-Gough and Albert B. Christman.
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Gerrard-Gough, J. D., author.
- Christman, Albert B., author.
- Series:
- History of the Navy at China Lake, California ; v. 2.
- History of the Navy at China Lake, California ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naval Ordnance Test Station (Inyokern, Calif.)--History.
- Naval Ordnance Test Station (Inyokern, Calif.).
- United States. Navy--History.
- United States.
- United States. Navy.
- Ordnance, Naval--History.
- Ordnance, Naval.
- Rockets (Ordnance)--History.
- Rockets (Ordnance).
- Genre:
- Online resources.
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 436 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Naval History Division, 1978.
- Summary:
- Volume 2 spans a relatively short period of the Naval Weapons Center's three-decade existence: only four and a half years-from November 8, 1943, to May 1948-but these were crucial years. They were the formative years. They include the final, intense years of World War II when the new Station's ability to respond to urgent combat needs for the new wonder weapons-rockets-was put to the test. They also include a critical period of the Station's transition from war to peace when the issue at stake was whether the new naval facility on the desert would continue to serve merely as a test station, as its name implied, or whether it would become a laboratory as originally envisioned, with the primary function of research, development, and testing of weapons. These were the years of the construction miracle that transformed the raw desert near Inyokern into the Navy's largest research and development complex for weaponry.
- Notes:
- G.P.O. sales statement incorrect in publication.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-415) and index.
- Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from title page (DTIC, viewed October 13, 2017).
- OCLC:
- 227695441
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