SZ/OEMU/44/17/49 - Conference on Missile Casualties, 11 September, 1944. Weekly Newsletter No. 133, 16/9/44

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/44/17/49

Level of description

Item

Title

Conference on Missile Casualties, 11 September, 1944. Weekly Newsletter No. 133, 16/9/44

Date/s

1944

Quantity & Format

1 leaf

Personal name

Lamport, Harold
Harvey, Newton
Gurney, Ronald W., Ronald Wilfrid

Subject

Conference on Missile Casualties (1944 : Washington D.C.)
Doron (fibreglass)
Splinters -- Penetration resistance
Splinters
World War, 1939-1945 -- Casualties (Statistics, etc.)

Creator

Forbes, T. R.

Creator

Southworth, Hamilton

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Weekly Newsletter No. 133

Extracted and summarised by Dr T.R. Forbes of the NRC, Washington for Dr Hamilton Southworth. Mentions the name change of the group from `Conference on Wound Ballistics' to `Conference on Missile Casualties'; Dr Newton Harvey's report on the retardation potential of cat muscle and skin; the effectiveness of Doron plates against fragments; Gurney's formulae for predicting the fragmentation of bombs and shells; the criteria for categories into which missile casualties could be divided for statistical analysis; and Lamport's suggestion for two screens through which a bullet may be fired to measure its speed.

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