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Call No. 168.7042
IRIS No. 0127110
Colonel. USAAF, 1941-1945. Born in Brussels, Belgium. AB, 1924; LLB, 1927, Harvard U. Commissioned Captain, Judge Advocate General's Department Reserve, April 1936: called to active duty, January 1941; transferred to Air Corps, August 1941. Military assignments include: Staff Officer, Office of Chief of Air Corps and HQ USAAF, 1941-1942; Deputy Chairman, Advisory Committee on Bombardment (later Committee of Operations Analysts), 1942-1944; Staff Officer, US Strategic Bombing Survey, 1944-1945; relieved from active duty, September 1945. Special Consultant, USAF, 1948-1949; Deputy Chairman, Joint Disarmament Study Group, 1959-1960. Civilian positions include: Law Partner, Hutchins and Wheeler, 1937-1941; successively Partner and Counsel, Hemenway and Barnes, 1945-1988; President and Trustee, Eastern Utilities Associates and Trustee, Massachusetts Investors Trust, 1949-1975. Author of Leaves From My Book of Life (1975).
Personal papers relating to Perera's military service. Includes comments on Committee of Operations Analysts, strategic air power, B-36, disarmament and efforts to create Air Force as a separate service of the armed forces.