[ARC5] WW II ELINT Book

Thu Apr 2 07:30:38 EDT 2015

The project was funded by the Association of Old Crows. There are three volumes - each are extremely well done. The author published many books including "Instruments of Darkness" which was perhaps the first book on electronic warfare. 

John  WA4WDL

---- D C _Mac_ Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com> wrote: 
> Where did you locate this book? What about later volumes? 
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> > Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 21:46:58 -0400
> > From: mark.k3msb at gmail.com
> > To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: [ARC5] WW II ELINT Book
> > 
> > I just finished reading "The History of US Electronic Warfare. Volume 1-
> > "The Years of Innovation-Beginnings to 1946" by Alfred Price."".    It
> > never ceases to amaze me what the "Greatest Generation" did with what they
> > had to work with.     I read a lot of WW II history, but I never realized
> > how much radar related ELINT  equipment the Allies used.    The author
> > claims the use of such equipment saved 600 B-17 aircraft in Europe and 200
> > B-29 aircraft in the Pacific.   At about 10 men per crew,  that's 8000
> > lives!
> > 
> > On a scale of 1 to 10,  I give this book an easy 15!!
> > 
> > 73 Mark K3MSB
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