Thank you, Dr. Pruitt, for the pat on the back to the research committee who copied the records. Allan and I are both members of that committee. The "committee" did not copy the stock books, nor could we have. We would have been in Ilion for another two weeks or more. When we were in Ilion, Commander Gunther visited us at lunch one day and presented us with the stock book copies that he had done, and will never be done again. This is the information that Charlie Price used to create the Serialization Book. Eight or ten of us spent five long days just copying the order books and IBM cards, which was an easy job compared to what Commander Gunther had done earlier. I have no idea how much help he had, but whatever, it was an heroic task. Once we copied the 30,000 pages and hundreds of IBM cards, they had to be bound, another weeks long job. To be honest, when you find a gun at a show, the frame size is right in front of you. You don't need research material to identify what you are looking at. Thank you, Allan, for your comments and for your company at Ilion so many years ago. Bill Murphy
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