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"In June of 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...1941, the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) superseded the committee structure [of the In June of 1940, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) to coordinate, supervise, and conduct scientific research on the problems underlying the development, production, and use of mechanisms and devices of warfare. ...National Defense Research Committee (NDRC)]. The OSRD projects gave the United States and Allied troops more powerful and more accurate bombs, more reliable detonators, lighter and more accurate weapons, safer and more effective medical treatments, and more versatile vehicles.
Quoted from the "National Defense Research Committee" article, linked above.
The Office of ScientificResearch and Development (OSRD) was an agency of the United States federal government created to coordinate scientificresearch for military purposes during World War II.
It superseded the work of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), was given almost unlimited access to funding and resources, and was run by Vannevar Bush, who reported only to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The research documented the men's ability to maintain physical output and the psychological effects such as introversion, lethargy, irritability and severe depression.
The National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) was an organization created "to coordinate, supervise, and conduct scientificresearch on the problems underlying the development, production, and use of mechanisms and devices of warfare" in the United States from June 27, 1940 until June 28, 1941.
It was superseded by the Office of ScientificResearch and Development in 1941, and reduced to merely an advisory organization until it was eventually dissolved in 1947.
The NDRC of the OSRD membership consisted of Conant (Chairman), Tolman (Vice-Chairman), Adams, Compton, and Jewett, along with the Commission of Patents (Coe until September 1945, and then Casper W. Ooms), and the representatives of the Army and Navy (which changed periodically).
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