During the first year of U.S. involvement in World War I, the Army's ballistic problems were handled by Captain E. M. Ayer, Lieutenant R. H. Kent, and Lieutenant S. W. Alexander in the Artillery Ammunition Section of the Gun Division, Office, Chief of Ordnance OCO. In addition to other duties, this group planned range firings of new cannon, supervised the ballistic firings conducted at Sandy Hook Proving Ground, computed firing tables, and compiled the first complete table of contents.

Volume 1: Ballisticians in War and Peace. A History of the United States Army Ballistics Research Laboratory. 1914-1956. (https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA300523) -- Volume 2: Ballisticians in War and Peace. A History of the United States Army Ballistic Research Laboratories. 1957-1976. (https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA300524) -- Volume 3: Ballisticians in War and Peace. A History of the United States Army Ballistics Research Laboratory. 1977-1992. (https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA300522)

v. 1. A history of the United States Army Ballistic Research Laboratories, 1914-1956.