The James D. O'Connell papers, 1950-1958.
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O'Connell, James D., 1899-1984
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James D. O'Connell (b. Sept. 25, 1899, Chicago, Ill.-d. July 29, 1984, Washington, D.C.), U.S. Army officer, graduated from West Point in 1922 and from Signal School in 1925. He served as an instructor at the Signal School, earned a master's degree in Communications Engineering at Yale, and returned to the School as instructor until 1936. During World War II, he was assigned to the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, was executive officer of the Signal Supply Service, and served at Headquarters,...
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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...
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Congress passed a resolution creating a national weather service on February 9, 1870, and it was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. This new law directed the Secretary of War to take meterological observations and provide warnings of approaching storms. The Brevet Brigadier General Albert J. Myer and his Signal Service Corps were assigned this duty on February 25, 1870 by the Secretary of War. Weather observations began on November 1, 1870. In June 1872, Congress extended the weather...
