History of the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California. Volume 2 The Grand Experiment at Inyokern

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�...

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Main Authors: Gerrard-Gough, J D, Christman, Albert B
Format: Report
Language:English
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CALIFORNIA
HISTORY
NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES
NAVAL SHORE FACILITIES
NAVAL WEAPONS CENTER CHINA LAKE
TEST FACILITIES
Test Facilities, Equipment and Methods
TRANSITIONS
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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. See also Volume 1, AD035809.