[gainer]

My military manuals from the 50s do not describe any developer such as the one above nor does any Kodak manual. They basically describe Metol + HQ developers with 50 g/l or so of Sodium Sulfate, and that is the reason I asked the question.

PE

The manual I have,TM 1-219, was written under the direction of the Chief of the Air Corps. There was no separate Air Force at the time, so the front cover only mentions the War Department. It is truly basic photography. I suspect that most of the formulas were designed to be capable of high contrast for aerial photography.