Dahlgren Digest Winter 2015 Edition

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DAHLGREN HERITAGE FOUNDATION Winter 2015

Dahlgren Heritage Museum P. O. Box 816, Dahlgren, Virginia 22448 www.dahlgrenmuseum.org

T he 2014 Christmas holiday sea-son kicked off with a resound-ing celebration on Saturday,

Nov. 15, as the Dahlgren Heritage Museum hosted the region’s first Ger-man Christmas Market. An estimated 3,000 guests visited the evening outdoor festival held on the museum’s grounds adjacent to Wayside Park and Hwy 301 in King George County. The festive event was open to the public at no charge and featured a craft fair, ornament and cookie decorating activities for the kids, live music and a Christmas tree decorating contest. Ed Jones, Dahlgren Heritage Foundation president, commented, “The event was a fantastic success thanks to the many folks from King George and beyond who turned out for what was truly a community event. “We look forward to bringing this event back next year – bigger and better,” he added. The Foundation staff has an-nounced the date for a 2015 German Christmas Market – November 14. Crafters and other vendors interested in participating may request further information by contacting the Dahlgren Museum at dahlgren [email protected]. Live musical performances by area school groups at this year’s event included holiday songs by Dahlgren School students, the Nutcracker Ballet by a troupe from King George High School, and concert by Thornburg Middle School’s dulce Corde orches-tra ensemble, capped with a special guest appearance by Anthony Camp-bell from Spotsylvania, winner of

NBC’s “Today’s Superstar” contest in 2003. Christmas trees adorned by stu-dents and faculty from six area schools were on display as part of a decorating contest. Trees provided by the Willow Oaks Christmas Tree and Lily Farm were decorated by King George elementary, middle and high school students, and by students from Dahlgren School on board Naval Sup-port Facility Dahlgren. The tree deco-rating contest was won by Potomac Elementary School. Hot food and refreshments in-cluded concessions by The Bavarian Chef restaurant and Oak Crest Win-ery. A heated vendors’ tent, along with hot chocolate and a toasty out-

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DAHLGREN HERITAGE FOUNDATION

President Edward W. Jones

Vice President Robert V. Gates

Museum Administrator Susan Prien

Treasurer Dennis Quick

Secretary Jeron Hayes

Board of Directors Charles Armstrong Ruby Brabo John B. Ashton Greg Chambers Tim Carsola Joseph McGettigan James Eaton Debbie McInnis Stan Palivoda Ed Watson Lisa A. Rossbacher

Our Mission

The Dahlgren Heritage Foundation preserves

and promotes the history, traditions, heritage

and culture of the United States Navy at

Dahlgren, Va., and the surrounding commu-

nity. The Foundation will purposefully and

aggressively seek financial support to estab-

lish the Dahlgren Heritage Museum and to

provide the long-term preservation efforts

and educational activities associated with

sharing the stories and interpreting the U.S.

Navy’s physical, technical, intellectual and

social contributions to King George County,

the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the na-

tion.

Our Vision

To generate a public understanding of the

impact the community and U.S. Navy base at

Dahlgren, Virginia, have had in using science

and technology to strengthen national de-

fense, particularly through support for war-

fighters.

The Dahlgren Heritage Foundation is a member of the American Associa-tion for State and Local History.

PRESIDENT’S MEMO

Tooting Our Own Horn By Ed Jones

S top tooting your own horn! That’s the not uncommon remand we often hear. But in the case of the Navy base at Dahlgren, I sometimes think we have just the opposite problem: We don’t toot our horn enough.

That’s what we hope to remedy this year with our series of forums mark-ing the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. The thread that will weave through all four of these sessions at the University of Mary Washing-ton, Dahlgren Campus, is the important role Dahlgren played during that colossally challenging time to our nation. From the ordnance testing and development that were key to Allied victo-ry, to Dahlgren’s role in the birth of atomic capability, to the beginnings of the computer age, we’ll bring together knowledgeable storytellers to share the Dahlgren story. Along the way, we’ll focus on the impact those war years had on the Dahlgren community, both inside the gates (with the enduring role of Boomtown) and outside the gates. You’ll find more information on these forums elsewhere in this newslet-ter, and on our website – www.dahlgrenmuseum.org. We salute UMW Dahlgren for its continuing support of our museum. Thanks to Scott Jones and his team at the UMW campus, this series of forums will allow us to achieve two key goals. The first is to further our mission of bringing the community together in creative ways to tell the Dahlgren story. In addition to the forums themselves, we’ll be offering special exhibitions at the museum that relate to these topics. The second goal is to continue our countdown to the Dahlgren base’s Cen-tennial in 2018, when we hope to have our museum operating on all cylin-ders. By that we mean regular daily hours at the museum, continuing pro-grams with local schools, many more community forums, and a lively, inter-active website. You can help by joining our team. Become a member, attend a forum, vol-unteer to be a host on a Saturday afternoon at the museum. There’s a lot to do to ensure that all those who have contributed to Dahlgren’s role over the past nine decades-plus are appropriately recognized for their efforts. If that falls into the category of “tooting our horn,” so be it!

Dahlgren’s Potomac River Test Range proved to be a

critical asset in the nation’s war effort, accomplish-

ing proof testing for all the Navy’s large-caliber guns

on their way to serve in the Fleet.

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intellectual and social contributions to King George County, the Common-wealth of Virginia, and the nation.

door fire pit provided some welcome warmth against the cold night’s air. Attendees also were invited to bid in a silent auction for a wide selection of items and services by area busi-nesses and individuals, to include a one-week stay at a North Carolina mountain cabin, and a one-night stay at the Belle Grove Plantation Bed and Breakfast in King George. Of course, a special guest appear-ance by Santa caused a stir among the youngsters on hand, who had an op-

portunity to have their photo taken with the “jolly ole elf” in a studio set up inside the Dahlgren Museum. All proceeds from this year’s German Christmas Market were to benefit the Dahlgren Heritage Foun-dation. The foundation is chartered to establish and operate the Dahlgren Her-itage Museum and to pro-vide the long-term preser-vation efforts and educa-tional activities associated with sharing the stories and interpreting the U.S. Navy's physical, technical,

Photo Gallery (clockwise from top left): Attendees vote for best Christmas tree; the Bavarian Chef had a steady stream of

customers; Dahlgren School students offer a concert of holiday songs; Thornburg Middle School’s dulce Corde orchestra

ensemble performs a Christmas carol; youngsters work on a holiday craft in the crafters and concessions tent.

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to the driver and asked if there was a hotel in this area and everybody-because they were looking at this WAVES officer-everybody broke out laughing."

By Andrew Revelos

T he outcome of World War II still hung in the balance when Ensign Genevieve Parker

checked into her first duty station at the Dahlgren Naval Proving Grounds in 1944. One of the first WAVES officers to serve at Dahlgren, Parker still fondly remembers excitement, the dizzying pace of work and camaraderie during the war. Her year in Dahlgren was an eventful one: she met her husband Edelen and would spend the next few decades of her life as a Navy spouse. At 95 years young, Parker recounted her memories with sharpness, clarity and humor. Thousands of young women served in the Navy as Women Accept-ed for Volunteer Emergency Service program, better known as WAVES, during World War II. Unlike the women who served during World War I, WAVES were led by woman officers. Parker was a teacher when the U.S. joined the war and called for woman volunteers. "I'm from the middle-west, in Wisconsin," said Parker. "The war had just begun and they were taking all the men. You didn't have to volunteer in those days; they just took you. They took all the men. I said shoot, this is no fun. I'm going where the guys are. Another teacher and myself, we made the decision. We went to Milwaukee, found the Navy recruitment office and signed up." Parker completed WAVES officer training at Smith College, in North-ampton, Mass. "We all got our or-ders," she said. "The girls were stand-ing around [saying] 'oh, I'm going to New York' or 'oh, I'm going to Phila-delphia.' And I looked at [my orders] and said 'did anybody ever hear of Dahlgren?' Nobody had and nobody

else got orders to Dahlgren." Parker took a train from Boston to Baltimore and then caught a bus to the then-remote Dahlgren Proving Grounds. "When we got close I went

Genevieve Parker in her Clinton, Md. home for a recent interview at 95 years young.

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Parker was "saved" by fellow WAVES when she finally arrived at the base. "Those were the days," she recalled with a grin. The flurry of work undertaken at Dahlgren during the war impressed Parker. "It was a pretty lively, going thing, Dahlgren," she said. "They were testing these big guns, all the way from the 3-inch, the 5-inch, whatever, all the way up to the 16-inch guns." The first task was getting used to the very noisy testing that echoed across the base. "You ever seen that 16-inch gun fire?" she asked. "When they used to test those guns at the proving ground, it would blow the pictures off the wall and the furniture would shake and rattle. It was really fun." Parker's primary job was to create range tables that helped Navy gun-ners hit their targets. In the days be-fore computers, this was no small task and the list of wartime ordnance re-quiring new range tables was grow-ing. "In those days, they had a formu-la," she said. "You had to put in the speed of the bullet, the weather played a part-the wind, the tempera-ture-it was a formula that incorpo-rated all these things. This was a range table. When you shoot the gun, where does it go? What is the angle? You had to put all this into your for-mula so you could find out if you'd hit your target or not. You had to fig-

ure it out for every angle. And [the formulas] were huge. No calculators. you had to do it all with paper and pencil." Though that particular job took place behind the gun line at Dahlgren, the WAVES occasionally got a front-row seat to the testing. "All the wom-en got out there to watch them fire the guns," said Parker. "It was neat be-cause they fired down the Potomac River and you could see the projectile if you stood right behind [the gun]." While Parker calculated range tables with pencil and paper, she witnessed one of the Navy's most important See WAVES on page 6

transformations. The incredible amount of work that needed to be done at Dahlgren led Navy leaders, including base commander Capt. Da-vid Hedrick, to seek out more efficient means of completing new range ta-bles. Hedrick ordered more desk cal-culators and commissioned the pro-ject that created the Harvard Mark II relay calculator, delivered to Dahlgren in 1947. Earlier types of computers had already made their way to the base just as Parker was leaving. "It was just starting," she said. "A computer filled a whole room. I was just getting ready to leave when they got this computer. All the bigwigs. they were so excited about his com-puter." Parker was later tasked with com-piling reports and scheduling ap-pointments for two captains in one of the range offices. As one of only a few WAVES officers, Parker was also charged with leading the enlisted WAVES. "They lived right with the enlisted Sailors," said Parker of the enlisted WAVES. "They had a sepa-rate hallway or something. One of us [officers] had duty every night. We had go over there and sleep in the barracks with the enlisted WAVES so they didn't get into any trouble." That responsibility continued when the enlisted WAVES went on liberty in Fredericksburg or Colonial Beach, where Parker patrolled the board-walk. "We had to watch out for the WAVES and make sure they didn't get into any trouble," said Parker. "We had to walk up and down that board-walk and watch the enlisted WAVES. They were just like us and probably some of them were just as well-educated." If that weren't enough responsibil-ities, Parker also had one more collat-eral duty selling war bonds. Every-body bought them," she said. Despite the frantic war effort that affected every facet of base life, Parker and her fellow WAVES found time to relax. She still seems to be a little sur-prised by all the attention the WAVES

WAVES, pictured at work at chart tables at the Dahlgren proving ground

during World War II, were a significant component of the base’s workforce

required to support around-the-clock range operations.

While Parker calculated range tables with pencil and paper, she wit-nessed one of the Navy's most important transformations. The incredible amount of work that needed to be done led Navy leaders to seek more efficient means of completing new range tables.


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Neither love or friendship could overshadow the war

officers received. "We had a good time," she said. "We were only three WAVE officers, so even the captains and admirals invited us to all the par-ties. We were a phenomenon, I guess." The WAVES officers saw their male counterparts at meals and the group enjoyed movies, cards, golf outings and ping pong together. "We saw them three times a day," said Parker of the male officers. "Every once and awhile they'd a have a little party or serve drinks before dinner. My hus-band came over a couple of times and we'd walk over to dinner together; that's where I met him." Then-Lt. Edelen Parker had al-ready spent several years in the Navy, earning his wings in 1937. The dash-

ing young officer was quickly promot-ed as the war progressed. "My hus-band was a dive bomber pilot testing bomb sights," said Parker. "He said they dropped bombs and missiles all over the Potomac River and the Ches-apeake Bay. Once, they dropped one in a woman's back yard and boy did they hear about it." According to family legend, Edelen Parker once flew his plane un-derneath the Harry Nice Bridge, then called the Potomac River Bridge. He clearly made an impression on the young ensign. "I thought that was the best year of my life," Parker said. Edelen Parker stayed in the Navy af-ter the end of World War II, reaching the rank of rear admiral and retiring in 1972. He shared his own recollec-tions of Dahlgren with his wife and children before he passed away in 1993. One of the most striking, and

one that still affects base operations today, were the Parkers' thoughts about working with civilian scientists. The perpetual culture clash between military leadership and the sometimes idiosyncratic scientists came to a head at Dahlgren during the 1940s. "There were a lot of civilian PhDs [in Dahlgren] that were part of the development of bomb sights and he would always kind of chuckle because they were in a different world," said Rhoderick, the Parkers' oldest son. "He said [Dahlgren] was full of a bunch of PhDs who didn't know how to tie their shoes," added Chris, the Parkers' other son. Some of those scientists were brought directly into the uniformed ranks, a move that either helped or hurt the situation depending on one's loyalties. "They brought these profes-sors, these PhDs, and gave them a


rank," said Parker. "They didn't know anything about the Navy." Though the tension between the military and scientific communities persisted at Dahlgren after the end of the war, the brains and the brass al-ways seemed to find a way to accom-plish the mission at hand. One such officer-scientist, Dr. Al-len Hershey, stayed on at Dahlgren as a civilian after the war and eventually became senior member of the Warfare Analysis Department. He was highly-regarded by his peers, though his professorial mannerisms seemed a little "weird" to military service mem-bers. Hershey married Parker's friend, a fellow WAVES officer. "He was a typical scientist-professor," she said. "It was a good match." Neither love nor friendship could overshadow the war and the transi-ence it produced, however. Edelen Parker was promoted to lieutenant commander and soon received orders to San Diego, where he would be as-

signed to USS Manila Bay. Parker married Edelen and left the service, though the required bureaucratic ma-neuvering was not without its compli-cations. "I had everybody working on it, even the head of the WAVES unit in Washington," she said. "So I was able to get out then." For the Parkers, World War II ended some months after VJ Day, when USS Manila Bay returned to San Francisco in 1945. In the many years since Parker left Dahlgren, she still remembers the main features of the base. "I can picture it pretty well," she said. Parker's fondest memories, how-ever, are of her husband. Edelen, it seems, including lots pranks in his courtship of Parker. "He'd push the doorbell and then run off and leave me standing there by myself," she said, smiling. The Parkers' descendants current-ly manage Parker Farms, a business that began when Edelen retired from

the Navy and began growing berries at his parents' Clinton, Md. farm. With the help of the Parkers' sons, the business grew and the family now manages agricultural operations in seven states. The origins of the family and family business, however, are the product of a wartime romance at Dahlgren. Parker smiles sublimely as she remembers the days she spent with her groom at Dahlgren. "We got this canoe and we were out there in our uniforms on the water, so what does he do? He tips over the canoe. My hat went floating down the river. We fi-nally got back into the canoe and he did it again. He was a real joker." She doesn't hesitate when asked whether or not she avenged the prank. "I married him," she said, laugh-ing. "That fixed him."

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By Gary Wagner

T he Dahlgren Heritage Founda-tion is targeting 2015 as a year-long opportunity to observe

the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II through the lens of the innovations and technology devel-oped and tested by the U.S. Navy at Dahlgren, Va. that helped determine the outcome of that war and continue to be critical to the tactical and strate-gic capabilities to U.S. armed services today and into the future. The centerpiece of this year-long commemoration will be a series of quarterly community forums hosted at the UMW Dahlgren Campus. The March 11 forum which kicks off the series will be themed to highlight the role of guns, technology and Dahlgren

in helping to bring World War II to an end. Held in the UMW Dahlgren Cam-pus’ University Hall, the community forums will be open to the public and offered at no charge. Each forum will begin at 4:30 p.m. with an informal reception and the program will begin at 5 p.m. The World War II commemorative programming of 2015 will also pro-vide a platform for the Foundation to prepare for the centennial of the Navy base at Dahlgren in 2018. The Foun-dation anticipates that the Dahlgren Heritage Museum will factor into the base’s centennial observance and will serve as helpful catalyst not only to tell the history of Dahlgren, but also to promote its future.

The Dahlgren Heritage Museum will host special openings and pro-grams to coincide with the quarterly community forums. Plans are under-way to showcase special exhibits at the museum and coordinate with mili-tary commands on Naval Support Facility (NSF) Dahlgren for public tours of the base. Additionally, the museum plans to host a student STEM (science, tech-nology, engineering and math) activi-ty and student tour of the base. The goal of the Foundation is to generate a public understanding of the impact the U.S. Navy base at Dahlgren and the surrounding com-munity have had in using science and technology to strengthen national de-

Dahlgren Takes Spotlight in Year-Long Commemoration of the End of World War II

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Thank You! From the Dahlgren Heritage Museum

for a Wonderfully Successful

German Christmas Market An estimated 3,000 people attended this inaugural celebration, featuring live musical and dance performances, Christmas trees decorated by local school students, a holiday craft bazaar, German food, refreshments, kids crafts, and an early visit by Santa. We truly appreciate the tremendous

outpouring of community spirit that made this event so special.

Community Sponsors

NSWC Federal Credit Union Waste Management

EXIT Realty J. T. Title

Hildrup Moving & Storage Willow Oaks Christmas Tree & Lily Farm

Individual & Silent Auction Donors

High Tides on the Potomac Restaurant Wilkerson’s Seafood Restaurant

Domino’s Pizza in Dahlgren Rivers Edge Inn

Pancho Villa Mexican Restaurant Belle Grove Plantation Bed & Breakfast

City of Fredericksburg Tourism Courtyard Marriott Fredericksburg

Smoking Ron’s BBQ Yesterday’s Family Restaurant

Bobby K’s Roadside Café Vinny’s Italian Grill & Pizzeria

Lavender Heights Bed & Breakfast Mason’s King George Florist Not Your Mother’s Cupcakes

Ingleside Winery NSWC Dahlgren Division

Walmart O’Donnell Family

Rob Gates Debbie McInnis Susan Saunders

Plan now to visit next year’s German Christmas Market

Saturday, November 14, 2015!

fense, particularly through support for warfighters. Dahlgren’s function as the Na-vy's principal proving ground at the outset of World War II provided a critical capability for proofing and testing every major naval gun and all ammunition supplied to the Fleet to directly influence and support force readiness throughout the global con-flict. Dahlgren’s ballistic ranges, cou-pled with the scientific and technical expertise resident at the base at the outset of World War II, played an important role in the nation’s devel-opment of its first atomic weapon delivery system. Dahlgren’s ballistic ranges con-tinue to provide a unique capability for proofing and testing every major naval gun and Fleet ammunition, as well as supporting RDT&E and proof testing for leading-edge weap-ons systems for Navy and other U.S. armed services. The siting of the Naval Ord-nance Relay Calculator (NORC) computer and further evolutions of computer systems employed at Dahlgren have been key to develop-ment of leading-edge ballistics re-search, space geodesy and space sur-veillance, and computer/ weapon systems integration, and have pro-vided essential operational support to Navy and other U.S. armed forces on both strategic and tactical levels. Today, Dahlgren has grown to serve as home to multiple DoD com-mands that execute a broad spec-trum of scientific and response-force missions serving all branches of the U.S. armed services. NSF Dahlgren makes a signifi-cant economic contribution to the local community and the installa-tion’s military commands, as a whole, serve as the largest employer in King George County, and one of the largest employers in the greater Fredericksburg area.

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Free half-page advertisement in four quarterly editions of the Digest.

As a Corporate Member, Corporate Contributor, Corporate Sponsor or Corporate Partner you will receive a certificate of appreciation. Supporting businesses in these categories will be listed in the Dahlgren Heritage Foundation Digest newsletter, in addition to having an opportunity to place free display adver-tisements in the Digest as outlined above.

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Dahlgren Heritage Foundation Expands Business Support Program

The Dahlgren Heritage Foundation preserves and promotes the history, traditions, heritage and culture of the U.S. Navy at Dahlgren, Virginia, and the surrounding community. The Foundation is chartered to establish and operate the Dahlgren Heritage Museum and to provide the long-term preservation efforts and educational activities associated with sharing the stories and interpreting the U.S. Navy's physical, technical, intellectual and social contributions to King George County, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the nation.

Consider This Opportunity to Invest in Preserving Navy History

We invite you to join us in this exciting endeavor as a business supporter. Financial support from businesses serves as a key component in helping us expedite our plans for operating the Dahlgren Heritage Museum on a continuing basis, and to undergird our educational ef-forts and special programs for the benefit of our community. You can help by becoming a business supporter at the Corporate Member, Corporate Contributor, Corporate Sponsor or Corporate Partner levels. The Dahlgren Heritage Foundation is chartered as a non-profit organization, and all donations made to the Foundation are fully tax deductible. You may use the application provided below to sign up for the Foundation’s Business Support Program, or you can make your donation on line at www.dahlgrenmuseum.org. All donations are welcome.

Consider This Opportunity to Promote Your Business

Those businesses that enroll as a supporter of the Dahlgren Heritage Foundation at the Corporate Member, Corporate Contributor, Cor-porate Sponsor or Corporate Partner levels will be listed in the quarterly Digest magazine. Supporters at these levels will also have an op-portunity to place free display advertisements in the Digest, as outlined below.

The Digest magazine is produced every quarter as an electronic publication, and distributed by email to Foundation members and a broad base of government, educational and business organizations, media, and special-interest groups. The magazine is also available to readers worldwide through its posting on www.issuu.com.

We appreciate your consideration to partner with us as we endeavor to preserve and promote the history, traditions, heritage and culture of the U.S. Navy at Dahlgren. — Ed Jones, President, Dahlgren Heritage Foundation

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