Cal Laning
Military Person
1906 – 1991
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Who was Cal Laning?
Rear Admiral Caleb Barrett Laning was a highly decorated naval officer, writer, and technical adviser. He was involved in the development of the U.S. naval Combat Information Center during World War II. The idea was taken "specifically, consciously, and directly" from the spaceship Directrix in the Lensman novels of E. E. Smith, Ph.D., and influenced by the works of his friend, collaborator, and Naval Academy classmate, fellow Missourian Robert Heinlein, but for bureaucratic reasons the source of the idea was not disclosed.
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