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the trucks seemed to be able to deliver the copies to the newsstands.

What are some of the other things that you got directly involved with in the 1940s?

[pause] So much of it was taken up with trying to make do with resources that were less than adequate, and you were constantly dealing with that problem. I have a memory of working very long hours but not to make something better, just to make it possible. Then the government called on us to do a lot of other things. I got involved with the Office of Naval Intelligence because the military had a serious problem in identifying enemy planes, ships, so on and so on. They discovered early in the war that we were shooting down our own planes as much as we were shooting down other planes. This is something very few people remember. For instance, when we landed in Sicily, I think I'm right, that there was a convoy of twenty-seven DC 3's that were to drop troops and I believe our own people shot down something like fourteen of them. Obviously, in the war people are very trigger happy. You tend not to wait to be sure that it's friend not foe. You tend to shoot first. So they went through a very big and complicated business of trying to train people on identifying enemy versus friendly pieces of equipment. I became in charge of a magazine called Recognition, which came out once a month or something like that, and showed all the latest foreign equipment and simplified sort of diagramatic sketches that could make any soldier or pilot recognize enemy objects by certain particular physical characteristics. This became, I'm told, a useful tool.