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...turned into years, the staff grew to 4,000, the final budget to $50 million, and the military men who came around to inspect rose from majors to colonels to generals. Among other devices, the lab produced the microwave early warning radar, the H2X that helped carry Dday, the SCR-584 for guiding fire against the buzz-bombs, and the ground control approach (G.C.A.) for landing aircraft. It revolutionized the relationship between government and science, set the pattern for the Manhattan Project...
...Wiggle. Soon after V-J day, the Signal Corps put Lieut. Colonel John H. DeWitt, a former radio "ham," in charge of a project called "Diana" (goddess of the moon, the wood, childbirth). No radically new apparatus was used, only a modified version of the standard "SCR-271" radar set, operating on its regular, fairly high frequency of 112 megacycles. The key play was in not sending out thousands of "pulses" of radio energy per second, which would not have allowed enough time in between for the moon echo to return; instead, Belmar sent out only one half-second pulse...
Foreign Minister: Scr Saraoglou...