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Topics include: undergraduate work; aviation cadet program in meteorology at Caltech; service in Guam and Saipan; forecasting for bombing raids over Japanese cities, and response of B-29 pilots; first verification of upper-level jetstream; destruction in postwar Japan; establishment of Offutt Air Force Base Weather Central; work for Irving Krick's International Meteorology Consulting Service in England, then in weather modification in the United States; establishment of own applied meteorology business; work with air conditioning industry, designers of cooling towers, consulting meteorologist for ESSA (predecessor to NOAA); AMS certified consulting meteorologist program; National Council of Industrial Meteorologists; assignments from National Science Foundation, including a review of weather modification programs; forensic meteorology, and other projects. Oral history interview with Loren W. Crow, 1992. Interviewed by Julius London. 1 sound cassettes (ca. 1 hr.) : analog, mono + transcript (30 pgs.). AMS 81; two physical versions (one master, one copy). Forms part of American Meteorological Society Oral History Project.