Franklin F. Snyder
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I don't think I did. He was the one that signed the thank you letter though.
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Probably. I know I spent a lot of time with him before he passed away.
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Is that right?
Q ..
He was very appreciative of your work, I can guarantee y o u
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Is that right?
Q ..
He was very concerned about that problem and was involved with getting you people
over to help him because he was really very afraid that the Germans were indeed
going to do that. It would catch a lot of his assault forces right in the middle of the
river.
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Yes.
Q ..
One of the things he very much appreciated. Is there anything else about that time
in Europe you want to mention? Were there any new techniques that you worked
out, or any ideas you may have come up with while you were doing that?
No, Cameron, was limited in the amount of available weather data. The 21st
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Weather Squadron there prepared maps which he got everyday.H e did his best in
forecasting rainfall which, as I say, he did the best he could. I never let on, but I
just couldn't rely on it too much because I just depended more on what gauge data
we had. If there were indications of heavy rainfall in some area, I could take
advantage of that in the forecast.
But the procedures were just the same that I used on the Potomac, the Susquehanna,
and the Ohio and the other basins. There wasn't any opportunity to, in fact, they
were probably a little cruder because of the lack of information. So there was
nothing really, there wasn't any research I did while I was over there.
Q ..
Your data for the western tributaries, then, was fairly good. But it was just the
eastern tributaries that were German property had very little data.
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