Comments on: The army’s top 10 inventions and the legacy of Harry Diamond http://www.yourish.com/2008/07/13/5087 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:40:49 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Soccerdad http://www.yourish.com/2008/07/13/5087/comment-page-1#comment-32648 Soccerdad Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:35:00 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5087#comment-32648 Alex, Was your father working on the proximity fuze or the time fuze? They were developed (as I understand) more or less in parallel, with the army developing the proximity fuze and the navy developing the time fuze. Alex,

Was your father working on the proximity fuze or the time fuze? They were developed (as I understand) more or less in parallel, with the army developing the proximity fuze and the navy developing the time fuze.

]]> By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2008/07/13/5087/comment-page-1#comment-32642 Alex Bensky Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:07:45 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5087#comment-32642 Oddly enough, my father was working on that program in 1945, having reached what he called the exalted rank of ensign in the Navy and therefore an officer and gentleman by act of Congress. He and his colleagues thought it was going to be the weapon that would win the war, and there was a reasonably good chance tht we would have the opportunity to continue working on the project in the field, i.e. the invasion of Japan, scheduled for that November. Fortunately there was another bunch of guys working on a project that they, too, thought was going to be the weapon that would win the war. The other guys, thank goodness, were right. Oddly enough, my father was working on that program in 1945, having reached what he called the exalted rank of ensign in the Navy and therefore an officer and gentleman by act of Congress. He and his colleagues thought it was going to be the weapon that would win the war, and there was a reasonably good chance tht we would have the opportunity to continue working on the project in the field, i.e. the invasion of Japan, scheduled for that November.

Fortunately there was another bunch of guys working on a project that they, too, thought was going to be the weapon that would win the war. The other guys, thank goodness, were right.

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