Philby was originally a Section D officer and is so noted in a letter of 24 September 1940 written by Lt. Col. Valentine Vivian, the head of Section V at that time.

The professional history of radioactive weaponry may be traced to a 1943 memo from James Bryant Conant, Arthur Holly Compton, and Harold Urey, to Brigadier General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project and to a 1940 science fiction story, " Solution Unsatisfactory " by Lt. J. G. Robert A. Heinlein, USN ( R ).

On 21 September 1940, Lt John MacMillan Stevenson Patton of the Royal Canadian Engineers risked his life when he and five others manhandled an unexploded German bomb away from the Hawker aircraft factory at Brooklands and rolled it into an existing bomb crater where it later exploded harmlessly-his bravery was subsequently recognised by the award of the George Cross.

Also in 1940, Cochran wrote a letter to Lt. Col. Robert Olds, who was helping to organize the Air Corps Ferrying Command for the Air Corps at the time.

In May 1940, soon after the World War II broke out in Europe, Nancy Love wrote to Lt. Col. Robert Olds, then in the Plans Division of Air Corps Headquarters but who a year later would be in charge of establishing the Air Corps Ferrying Command, that she had found 49 excellent women pilots, who each had more than a thousand flying hours and could help transport planes from factories to bases.

* 1940 – 1942 Lt Col H E Reading RM

In May 1940, the airport was opened and formally named for Navy Lt. Jesse L. Easterwood.

* Jan 1, 1938 to Apr 14, 1940: General Lt. Joachim von Kortzfleisch

* Apr 14, 1940 to Jul 12, 1941: General Lt. Philipp Kleffel

The airport was named Hunter Municipal Airfield during Savannah Aviation Week in May 1940, in honor of Lieutenant Colonel ( Lt. Col .) Frank O ’ Driscoll Hunter, a native of Savannah and a World War I flying ace.

Lt. Storsveen took part in the Norwegian Campaign against the German invasion forces in the spring of 1940 and, following the Norwegian surrender, he soon saw the value of an intelligence-gathering organisation for the Allies.

* 16 December 1938 – 17 June 1940 General Staff Officer 2nd grade ( GSO2 ), Staff College, Camberley ( temporary ; local Lt. Col.

* A / Lt. Colonel 18 June 1940 – 17 September 1940

* T / Lt. Colonel 18 September 1940 – 3 February 1942

* November 10, 1938, to August 15, 1940, Gen. Lt.

What is known is that Lt. Col. Oliver Marston, an artillery officer stationed in Richmond and acting as an agent of the Third Corps Area commander, made a detailed investigation of the Bowling Green area in September 1940.

* Lt. Col. Alexander Robert Gisborne Gordon, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary at the Ministry of Finance ( i. e. Chief Whip ), resigned on 13 June 1940, explaining to the Commons that the government was " quite unfitted to sustain the people in the ordeal we have to face.

As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

but after war came to Europe, he decided to return to France, arriving there in January, 1940.

In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.

By September 1940 the Suite had developed into a collection of six songs, `` four spirituals, a dream, and a lullaby ''.

The framing scenes, on the other hand, both take place in the late Spring of 1940, just at the moment of the defeat of France in the second great world conflict.

The program was instituted in 1940, and releases are available only from the Recording Laboratory of the Library of Congress, Washington 25, D.C..

The state presently owns 389 passenger vehicles in comparison to approximately 200 in 1940.

Few records are available concerning the subject prior to 1940.

Whether there were too few automobiles in 1940 or too many now is problematical.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

Carl Kauffeld has written to me of sexual activity in February 1943 of young born in March 1940.

The sections were mounted on cold slides smeared with Haupts' adhesive ( Johansen, 1940 ) in earlier experiments, and in later experiments with a different mixture of the same components reported by Schramm and Rottger ( 1959 ).

But the continuing charm of the other children -- Sally in 1940 and Jack in 1944 -- and all John's success at his work only made Edythe's dizziness and general uselessness more glaring.

After the War, he decided to remain in the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1940.

The element was first produced by Dale R. Corson, Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè at the University of California, Berkeley in 1940.

By 1940 the Third Reich had occupied many of the Alpine countries.

The Plague is in part a historical allegory, in which the plague signifies the German occupation of France from 1940 to 1944 during World War II.

They could not imagine that the Germans, whom they had defeated only twenty years previously, could defeat them in a mere six weeks, as happened when France fell in June 1940.

Christie wrote a concluding novel to her Marple series, Sleeping Murder, in 1940.

* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

* 1892 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist ( d. 1940 )

* 1857 – Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist ( d. 1940 )

* 1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* Col Markham ( born 1940 ), an Australian politician

* Phalen, Col. James M. ( Compiler ), " Chiefs of the Medical Department, U. S. Army 1775-1940, Biographical Sketches ," Army Medical Bulletin, No. 52, April 1940, pp. 70 – 74.

On 12 April 1940 the brigade was officially formed in Syria, with Col Kopański as its commander.

Cherrington, VD ( 2 Bn ) ( 1940 – 1941 ) ( Later Col. W. A. D.

Michael, born 11 November 1865 ( Toodjay ), died 6 July 1940, married on 17 July 1896 to Beatrice Margaret Forbes born 20 June 1871, daughter of Col. Charles D ' Oyley and Mary Louise ( née Slade ), children: Leo born 1889.