[Milsurplus] Infamy

[Bob Wilder]

How true Clete..Even when I entered the USAF in November 1948 Radar was 
just beginning
to be believed as a viable device for long range search.  I too also went 
the AACS/AFCS
route plus a couple of tours with ADC and Radar squadrons.


At 12:12 PM 12/10/2002 -0500, Cletus W Whitaker wrote:

>de WB2CPN South Central Pennsylvania   2002.12.10
>
>Being a retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant who spent a 20 plus
>year career in the Army Air Corps and later USAF Air and Airways
>Communications Service and its derivatives, I can tell you that
>the proto-radar operators were not punished.  Even the officers
>involved were not punished.  That radar station was in a test
>mode.  Remember it was long before the British and Germans made
>radar really work.  The radar was not officially in service.
>There were no plans in place to use its capabilities, what little
>it had.  Those guys were trying to see how the radar performed
>on the B-17's which were arriving that morning.  In those early
>days no real planner would put any faith in some weird thing
>like radar.  They had their acoustic horns to find airplanes
>with, didn't they.         73  SMS Whitaker  a.k.a.  Clete
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