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In early 1942, Mel Jackson was the first officer assigned to ECM duties in the US Army Air Corps and he served in ECM staff positions throughout WWII. Mel Jackson was also the first to come up with the idea of an Association of Old Crows.
During the 1950’s, many versions of that Crow logo appeared on decals, coffee mugs, tie clasps, lapel pins, ash trays, and other assorted memorabilia being distributed by the industrial participants as promotional give-aways.
Mel Jackson adopted a logo for the association (similar to the AOC logo shown above, right) from the one used by the Aircraft Radiation Laboratory (ARL) at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio in 1953.
By September 1964, the reunion idea had grown too large to be staged as an informal outing, and ended up in a large reception room at one of the largest hotels in Washington, DC – the original beginnings of the AOC as a non-profit association.
The final tally of the Crows banquet at the Shoreham Hotel held on September 9th, 1964 was 360 attendees.
On the whole, the events of September 9th, 1964 represented a rather modest start, and carried little indication that the association would progress beyond the stage of being an annual reunion to relive old ECM experiences.
In just two years, by the end of 1966, the AOC had grown to 2,300 members.
In 1978, Admiral Overseas Corporation was renamed AOC International.
Direct marketing under the AOC brand name began in 1979.
In July 1985 a decision was made by the AOC Board of Directors to build an AOC National Headquarters Building with a budget not to exceed $2,000,000.
The AOC Educational Foundation was established and approved by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on July 29th, 1986 as a non-profit charitable tax-exempt organization.
Episode 1 of the video series, The Invisible War, was first aired on The Learning Channel in 1996.
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