Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theB-29 route between the Marianas and Japan, the surface of the ocean is broken by a pimple called Iwo Jima or Sulphur Island. There the Japanese have maintained three airfields, also a radar station to detect the B-29s and flash word to Tokyo, 750 miles away, giving more than two hours' warning of the bombers' approach. By last week, U.S. planes had bombed little Iwo for 66 consecutive days...
...finish off Japan was submitted to the House Military Affairs Committee last week by Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. He listed 17 critical items whose production must be stepped up 19% (tanks) to 300% (60mm. and 81-mm. mortars). Some others: heavy artillery ammunition (89%), airborne radar (32%), field and assault wire (50% plus), dry-cell batteries (27%), heavy-duty truck and bus tires...
When the thaw came, fog settled. On most days Cub artillery spotters could get off the ground, and some days heavy bombers were able to attack rear bases and communications by using their "mickeys" (radar bombsights). But for ten straight days, Allied tactical air support was pinned to the ground, except for a few ineffective sorties...
Featuring the Slide-rule Symphony, a quasi-famous all-professor orchestra, the Radar School will hold its last party tomorrow at Memorial Hall, from 8 to 12 o'clock. Former students now at M.I.T. are invited...
Other highlights of the evening will include take-offs of Radar by the staff and the students, a magic act by Robert P. Lett, and "Information Please," a performance on the piano by Samuel E. Parker, instructor in Electronics, and the "Final Fadar Fanfare," with Guy Worsley lecturer on Electronics, announcing...