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Extent

45 digital objects.

Description

Forty-five digitally reformatted films from the collection of Will Forman on U.S. Navy submersibles, particularly the development of Deep Jeep at the Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) at China Lake, California. The collection also includes footage of Deep View; Denise, the Cousteau soucoupe submersible; and travel in Japan and Japanese submersible technologies.

Willis "Will" R. Forman was a submersible designer, engineer, and project manager at the Naval Undersea Research & Development Center in San Diego, California. He participated in the development of the Deep Jeep and Deep View submersibles in the 1960s.

Creation Date

• between 1960 and 1971

Collector

• Forman, Will, 1924-

Producer

• Naval Undersea Research and Development Center

Location Of Originals

From the Will Forman Navy submersible film collection. SMC 190. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Corporate Names

• Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.)
• Naval Undersea Research and Development Center

Topic

• Oceanographic submersibles

Format

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• video

Related Resources

Online finding aid

• Will Forman Navy submersible film collection

Related

• Will Forman. The history of American deep submersible operations, 1775-1995. Flagstaff, Ariz., Best Publishing Co., 1999.