December 1945

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Office of Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development created in USAAF, headed by Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay.

More than 100 German rocket scientists and engineers, who had agreed to come to the United States under Project Paperclip, arrived at Fort Bliss, Tex.

Navy BuAer awarded contract to Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Cal Tech to conduct research whose findings were to be used in formulating policy for a projected high-altitude earth satellite vehicle.

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