(g) Vehicle speed 20 mph, Deceleration Rate 20 G, (h) Vehicle speed 20 mph, (1) Vehicle speed 10 mph, 45 degree right obliquity 4. Pictorial Records. - Regular speed and slow motion pictures of the test runs shall be taken at 500 frames per second. (a) The restraining devices shall be modified as indicated by the test results to improve their effectiveness (b) The results obtained by the simulated crashes shall be scientifically related to crashes of actual vehicles.. (c) The movies taken in this phase shall be com bined, edited and narrated to provide a complete pictorial story of the test program. 1. Test Set-Up. Three surplus Post Office vehicles 2. Instrumentation. - An anthropometric specimen shall be installed to simulate the vehicle driver. It shall be inatamented as in A-2 above. 3. Conduct of Teats. A crash test will be conducted from a speed of 30 mph on each of the basic types of seating configurations. The optimum restraining device for each type of seat as determined from the simu lated tests shall be used. 4. Pictorial Records. Slow motion pictures in black and white and regular speed pictures in eolor shall be taken of the test set up and test runs. The slow mỌtion pictures of the test runs shall be taken at 500 frames per second. 5. Detailed Requirements. The movies taken in Phases I and II shall be combined, edited and narrated to provide a complete pictorial story of the test program. Monthly progress reports shall be furnished during III. GOVERNMENT FURNISHED EQUIPMENT The Government shall supply the contractor with 4 typical IV. CONTRACTOR FURNISHED EQUIPMENT The contractor shall furnish all test equipment including Senator RIBICOFF. If there are no further questions, we thank you very much for coming here. And if there is anything else we will have you back. Thank you very much. First, you are most welcome here, General Gruenther, and I thank you for coming. May I say personally, that you are one of the men in this Nation for whom I have the highest and greatest admiration. From past experience and association with you, not only have you been our great general, but I think you are one of the finest minds the United States of America has today, with your work after you left the Department of Defense and went with the American Red Cross. I think we are fortunate in having you before our committee. You are welcome wherever I am, General. We are all glad to see you. EXHIBIT 9 BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY OF ALFRED M. GRUENTHER Alfred Maximilian Gruenther was born at Platte Center, Nebraska, March 3, 1899, son of the late Christian M. Gruenther, publisher of the class was sent back to the Military Academy and remained there until June 1919. fessor - From 1919 to 1941, he served in routine peacetime assignments. During 8 years of this period he was an instructor and later an assistant proin chemistry and in electricity at West Point. In October 1941, he was appointed deputy chief of staff of the Third Army, San Antonio, commanded by Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger. Brig. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was transferred to Washington, and Lieutenant Colonel Gruenther was made chief of staff of the Third Army. Eisenhower. On August 1, 1942, he was transferred, as a brigadier general, to London as deputy chief of staff, Allied Force Headquarters, under General In January 1943, he was named chief of staff of Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army in North Africa. He served as General Clark's chief of staff throughout the rest of the war. In December 1944, General Clark became the commander of the 15th Army Group. This field command contained all allied combat units in Italy. It included Amrican, British, French, New Zealand, Italian, Polish, Indian, and South African units. When General Clark became commander of the U.S. Forces in Austria in July 1945 General Gruenther was named deputy commanding general. He served there until he returned to the United States in December 1945 to become deputy commandant of the National War College, which opened in September 1946. In October 1947, he was appointed as the first director of the Joint Staff, which served as the staff for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the preparation of strategic and logictic plans for the armed forces. In September 1949, he became Deputy Chief of Staff for plans in the Department of the Army. General Gruenther was appointed chief of staff of the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers in Europe in January 1951 under General Eisenhower. In July 1953, he succeeded Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway as supreme allied commander in Europe and as Commander-in-chief of the U.S. European Command. He occupied both of these posts until late November 1956, when he returned to the United States to retire on December 31, 1956. He served in the grades of second and first lieutenant for 16 years. He did not become a captain until May 1, 1935. With the advent of World War II, however, his advancement was rapid: major, July 1, 1940; lieutenant colonel, September 15, 1941; colonel, December 27, 1941; brigadier general, March 15, 1942; major general, February 4, 1943; lieutenant general, September 30, 1949; general, August 1, 1951. General Gruenther was married August 22, 1922, to Grace Elizabeth Crum of Jeffersonville, Ind. They have two sons serving in the Army, Donald Alfred, a lieutenant colonel stationed at the fentanyl in Washington, D.C.; and Richard Louis, (now in a major, serving as instructor, The Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Dick married a Red Cross worker in Japan a few days before he vas sent to Korea, where he was seriously wounded in combat in November 1950. The Gruenthers credit Red Cross-collected blood with being responsible in part for sav ing his life. General and Mrs. Gruenther have 14 grandchildren, eight in Donald's family and six in Richard's. General Gruenther served in an advisory capacity to several governmental, quasigovernmental, and private organizations. He is a member of the Business Advisory Council, U. S. Dept. of Commerce; the Advisory Council, Civil War Centennial General Gruenther became President of the American National Red Cross On January 1, 1957 and retired from that office on March 31, 1964. General Gruenther also served as a member of the Executive Committee, American Council on NATO; Maritime Affairs Committee, Advisory Committee to Secretary of Defense on Non-Military Instruction, Board of Trustees of the American Assembly and the Executive Committee, People To People. He is a member of the Electoral College for the Hall of Fame; the Visiting Committee, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is honorary president of the World Bridge Federation. General Gruenther is a member of the President's Committee for Traffic Safety and for several years served as Chairman of the Advisory Council to the President's Committee. He serves on the Board of Directors, Pan American World Airways; the Board of Directors, New York Life Insurance Company; National Academy of Foreign Affairs Committee and the Assumption College Advisory Board. Other commissions on which he has served are The President's Commission on National Goals, 1959-1960; The President's Committee to Study the United States' Military Assistance Program, 1958-59; The Disarmament Advisory Panel of the Secretary of State, 1958-60; and the Advisory Committee, Foreign Service Institute, U. S. Department of State, 1957-60. General Gruenther has been decorated by the United States and thirteen other governments and has received honorary degress from 32 American colleges and universities and awards from several societies and organizations. |