Word: radar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pips & Cows. There were other reasons for confusion. In the darkness, every pip on the portable radar screens and every shadow under the periodic flares that burst over Hill 327 was suspect. One night a cow wandered innocently into range and was gunned down. Three Marines returning from a night patrol approached a sentry in the dark, and two were tragically killed when the nervous guard challenged and fired on them in a single, startled motion...
...Radar View. To be sure, Leonov did not take U.S. spacemen by surprise...
They had been expecting a space spectacular for months; the sharp-eyed, long-range radars of the North American Air Defense Command watched the launch of the Voskhod II and followed it on orbit. Forewarned that a hole might open in the side of the spacecraft, changing its reflectivity, the radar men watched the reflected blip with special attention. As expected, they saw an irregularity develop in the space ship's electronic "signature." That was the instant when Leonov opened the hatch...
...other Vietnam developments, both Russia and China talked of sending "volunteers" to fight in Vietnam in response to the latest raids on North Vietnam. U.S. and South Vietnamese planes hit again at Dong Hoi and Quang Khe, disabled another radar stations, and sank four enemy ships...
...soon as they picked up "pips" on their radar screens, the marines: called on a nearby howitzer battery for flare shells to illuminate the area, then swept the slope with a barrage of machine-gun and mortar fire. Though there were no signs of bodies the next morning, the marines were delighted with the radar's performance in its first combat tests. Chuckled one machine gunner: "I'll bet they wondered how we knew they were out there...