Francis W. Noel - U.S. Naval Reserve Training Aids, 1939-1979

This series contains the papers of Francis W. Noel, who served as Director of Utilization of the Training Aids Section of the U.S. Navy during World War II. The Navy made extensive use of training aids during the war in order to increase the efficiency of armed forces training. World War II is credited with giving the audiovisual education movement its broad scale start toward public support and educational acceptance. The bulk of the material in this series is from World War II. However, this series also contains some personal Noel material from the 1970s. The later material largely documents the history of the training aids program of the U.S. Navy.