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Dr. Robert White visiting a Central Radio Propagation Laboratory facility atElmendorf AFB in Alaska, shortly after the formation of ESSA, a marriage of theWeather Service and Coast and Geodetic Survey. With him are Commander EugeneRichards, Captain Gerald Short, and Captain Harley Nygren of the C&GS; and Dr.Robert Knecht in the left center. (Image credit: NOAA Central Library Historical Photograph)