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The "father" of Air Weather Service, Col. Randolph P. "Pinkie" Williams worked to emphasize the need for a military weather service. The Chief Signal Officer of the Army expanded the Signal Corps' Meteorological section in 1935 as a result of the many studies and reports provided by then Capt. Williams.
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