Word: radarmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost to a man, officers and seamen of the Micmac stood by their short, wiry skipper. The fog into which he had raced at 26 knots, they said, had seemed like a mere wisp. Littler had used radar for eyes, and for once radar had proved to be blind. Radarmen said the fog might have caused an extremely rare phenomenon, shooting the radar waves upward so that a nearby target would be undetected. Pleaded Defense Counsel Roland Ritchie: "Is this man to be a martyr to this triumph of nature over science...