Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everyone has really been very helpful," volunteered Ensign Schwerin. "Yes, especially across the dinner table," one of the more loquacious of the quartet retorted. "Is that all you can say for Radar-men?" I asked "What men?" came back the quick reply from a source which preferred--nay, insisted--upon remaining anonymous...
Besides bringing with it all those autumnal beauties characteristic of New England, October brought to the Radar School the vanguard of a feminine invasion in the persons of Ensigns Quadland, Myers, Paulsen and Schwerin, W-V(S) USNR, or for those unfamiliar with Navy symbols--WAVES...
...here other than on an oscilloscope, and because the task of interviewing them promised to be most pleasant one, I managed to corral all four WAVES the other day in Pierce Study Hall, where, after all military courtesies were dispensed with, they volunteered some very pertinent reactions to the Radar School and to its student body...
Taking part in the parade and exercises near the baseball diamond will be the four to five thousand midshipmen and officers of the Supply, Radar, Communications, and WAVE units here. The 950 officer candidates from the V-12 Unit will be on leave at this time, having been reviewed on October...
...most heavily criticized of U. S. fighters, the rugged null (of the earlier Tomahawk and Kittyhawk series) were the backbone of U.S. defense in the early days of the war, drew many a slam because critics blamed them for results stemming from inexperienced tactics, lack of radar and other cause? outside the aircraft's ability. From Feb. i, 1942 to June 30, 1943, P-405 in all theaters, including Northwest Africa, destroyed 560 enemy craft, damaged 128, while losing 204. Yet the P-4O, of which more than 10,000 have been built, has been surpassed by newei...