Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thoroughly was the break ing of coded Japanese messages and the information they gave the U.S. high command before war began. Among the witnesses are Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1941; Captain Alwin D. Kramer, also of ONI; and various decoding and radar officers...
With a look into the not-so-distant future, he saw atomic bombs flying through the skies aimed by radar, piloted by radio. (A.A.F.'s General of the Army Henry Arnold in a report this week predicted 3,000-m.p.h. projectiles launched from "true space ships, capable of operating outside the earth's atmosphere...
After basic will come specialized training, with strong emphasis on weapons, radio, radar, other technical aspects of modern warfare. At first the trainee will work with squad or platoon, then with a regimental team, finally in combined maneuvers such as amphibious landings. Maneuvers will be held at large camps like Sill or Benning, which have both room and equipment...
They set to stripping her of her movable gear, littering her decks with outmoded radar, communication equipment, boxes of crockery and silverware. A faded jack at her bow, her commission pennant, and her ragged ensign hanging limply aft indicated that she was still a ship of the U.S. Navy, but soon these flags would be hauled down and she would be towed off to the bone yard...
...problem in designing the instrument was to eliminate false signals from sunshine or artificial light. So the beam was made to pulsate like the radio waves from a radar transmitter, and the photoelectric tube was made insensitive to nonpulsating light...