JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
I was so surprised to find this 1944 checklist and review for an "Air Combat Intelligence Officer" of "Life Raft and Emergency Equipment Performance Report" (!). It was in a notebook prepared (ca. 1944) by a naval student of the Naval Air Combat Information School at Quonset Point, Rhode Island. The printed text for the curriculum and classes for an intelligence officer given during the summer of 1944 are nearly all marked "RESTRICTED" in the typed original of the offset pages. The entire document is about 150pp long, and if there is interest in the contents I'd probably reproduce the entire thing--it is surprising how much can be learned and how much is revealed even in the multi-page lecture descriptions.
The document below addresses an odd internal issue of mine, something that I've sort of followed around in some fashion in reading about WWII in the air, and especially in the Pacific, and especially for the precautions and supplies aboard USAAF aircraft in the event of a ditching. I knew from incidental and second-hand reading exposure that these supplies changed quite a bit from 1942 to 1943, but I had no idea that there was such a debriefing schedule established for life raft usage.
I would really be interested in the answers to #17. No doubt there is a collection of those answers, but I think I'll just have to leave those to mystery.
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