Extremely Sad News

[Chris Trask]

        I would appreciate it if the original poster of this article,
being myself, was somehow recognized.

On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Tom Norris wrote:

> Right way, Wrong way, Navy way?
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>          Navy's Technical Records of 20th Century Destroyed
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> Associated Press, Washington - Naval Research Laboratory records that
> "chronicle some of the most significant technical achievements in the
> 20th century" were inadvertently destroyed by the National Archives.
>         They were "pulped beyond recognition," the archives said Wed-
> nesday.  The archives and the Navy blamed each other.
>         Fed into the pulper sometime last summer were 4,200 scientific
> notebooks and 600 boxes of correspondence and technical memos.
>         "The historical record of our nation's scientific and techno-
> logical heritage has suffered a serious and irreperable loss," Read Adm.
> Paul G. Gaffney II, chief of Naval Research, wrote National Archivist
> John Carlin, protesting the destruction of the records.
>         Among the lost records, Gaffney said, were the correspondence
> of American pioneers in high-frequency radio, work of the inventors of
> radar "and the war records or the application of these technologies in
> the campaigns against Nazi Germany and Japan."
>         Also lost were records of "path-breaking acoustic and oceano-
> graphic research" and materials tracing the early history of the Amer-
> ican space program with V-2 and Viking rockets, records of Vanguard,
> the first U.S. satellite program, "and much more," Gaffney said.
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