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Pictured from left to right at a meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, December 17, 1942: William A. M. Burden, William F. Durand, Benjamin W. Chidlaw, Vannevar Bush, Orville Wright, George W. Lewis, Jerome C. Hunsaker, John F. Victory, Charles G. Abbot, Theodore P. Wright, Edward Warner, Lyman J. Briggs, Sidney M. Kraus, and Francis W. Reichelderfer.

Original caption: " Meeting, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Wachington, D. C. December 17, 1942

Left to Right: Honorable William A. M. Burden, Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce; Dr. William F. Durand; Brigadier General Benjamin W. Chidlaw, Army Air Forces, Dr. Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development; Orville Wright; Dr. G. W. Lewis, Director of Aeuronautical Research; Dr. Jerome C. Hunsaker, Chairman; Mr. John F. Victory, Secretary; Dr. Charles G. Abbot, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; Dr. Theodore P. Wright, War Production Board; Dr. Edward Warner, Civil Aeronautics Board; Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, Director of National Bureau of Standards; Rear Admiral Sidney M. Kraus, Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department; Dr. Francis W. Reichelderfer, Chief, United States Weather Bureau.

Absent: Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Commanding General, Army Air Forces; Major General O. P. Echols, Commanding General, The Materiel Command, Army Air Forces; Rear Admiral John S. McCain, Chief, Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept.; Dr. George J. Mead.