Between November 1942 and February 10, 1943, Sakakida was tortured in attempts to break his story. (javadc.org)
Then, from spring 1942, effective radar, aggressiveness, and better shooting improved the performance of the Italian navy, although they continued to be hampered by low oil reserves. (strategypage.com)
Launched August 2 1942 and commissioned March 31 1943. (navsource.org)
SES Thomas E. Daniels in 1983, entitled Contributions of Black Americans to Electronic Research, Development, Production Distribution and Training at Fort Monmouth 1940-1982, "… the period 1940-1942 saw approximately 20 black male engineers and physicists arriving and immediately being assigned work in communications, radar, sound ranging, electron tubes, components and countermeasures. (army.mil)
In the 1942-1943 time frame, five Black technicians were trained in the installation, operation and maintenance of the SCR-270 and SCR-271 early warning surveillance radars. (army.mil)
Navy officers in 1942-1945 were going from a visual communications with flag semaphore and blinking coded signal lamps on high ship bridges to a radio voice and radar screen in a "Combat Information Center" (CIC) hidden below decks. (chicagoboyz.net)
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The term RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for radio detection and ranging. (wikipedia.org)
He worked as a barrister's clerk before joining the RAF in June 1940 as a ground radar operator. (telegraph.co.uk)
As Chapter Four demonstrates, Italy between 1940 and 1943 was forced to fight. (strategypage.com)
When the National Defense Research Committee was formed in 1940, Compton became chief of Division D (detection: radar, fire control, etc.) and in 1941 was placed in charge of those divisions concerned with radar within the new Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). (mit.edu)
In a real sense Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941 was an extension of the Summer 1940 Battle of Britain, underlining it's lessons on radio and radar directed air defense, at the expense of the Gun Club's interwar visual communications based fighting doctrine. (chicagoboyz.net)
19453
Davis WWII Radar Site (1941-1945) - A World War II U.S. Army Radar Site established in 1941. (fortwiki.com)
In 1939 he was seconded to work on radar development and worked in the Telecommunications Research Establishment from 1943 to 1945. (nae.edu)
From 1943 to 1945 he was chief of the Office of Field Services of OSRD and scientific advisor to General MacArthur. (mit.edu)
19412
This radar site was established in late December 1941 just after Pearl Harbor and the entry of the U.S. into World War II . (fortwiki.com)
Aust joined the Army Air Forces in September 1941 and completed flight school in April 1943. (unt.edu)
Squadron1
During the three weeks after 27 July 1943, the arriving Squadron 25 ships had brought out Yorktown, Lexington, and three CVL's from the East coast. (navsource.org)
20th1
Her build was completed on 20th February 1943 and she was formally transferred to the RN a week later as HMS FENCER a name not previously used for a British warship. (naval-history.net)
Enemy3
In the Middle East, Oxby used his radar to intercept 21 enemy contacts, resulting in the shooting down of 13 aircraft and probably two others. (telegraph.co.uk)
These secret radar sites were built to provide early warning of approaching enemy aircraft and ships but also served to assist friendly aircraft that were lost or had in-flight emergencies. (fortwiki.com)
Nothing out of the ordinary there - the weird stuff arrived on the scene in 1956, 13 years after the Eldridge was first commissioned, when an individual known as Carlos Miguel Allende claimed the ship had been transported from Philadelphia to Virginia in 1943 during a secret test involving novel technology that would make battleships invisible to enemy radar. (syfy.com)
Aircraft2
Using his airborne intercept radar, Oxby picked up a small force of aircraft and "homed" Green on to the target. (telegraph.co.uk)
These radars were used to detect aircraft and for air defense. (army.mil)
Surveillance1
The U.S. Air Force operates a radar, surveillance and weather station there, as well as a 10,000 foot-long runway, which was first opened in 1943. (discovermagazine.com)
North Carolina4
Davis WWII Radar Site Area at the end of Army Camp Road in Davis, North Carolina. (fortwiki.com)
He received further training in radar countermeasures at Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. (unt.edu)
In September 1943, I was in paratroop school at Fort Benning, Georgia," recalled Caesar J. Civitella, a private from Philadelphia, "and then at Camp Mackall near Fort Bragg, North Carolina, for airborne and gliders. (nps.gov)
He completed training at the Naval Radar Training School, MOS 6170, Aviation Control Officer, and began his FMF tour with the 9th Marine Air Wing at Cherry Point, North Carolina, although most of his time alternated between Atlantic Field and Bogue Field. (arlingtoncemetery.net)
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3 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption - Harold Tate with experimental miniature radar device in 1962. (army.mil)
Mr. Tate would go on to lead the group that conceived, designed, and built the first portable radar "gun" in 1962 at the Signal Laboratory's Advanced Radar Development Branch. (army.mil)
Engineer2
He graduated from Michigan State University in 1943 as a metallurgical engineer. (unt.edu)
Corleza Holiman, the other Black woman electronic engineer to reach the senior engineer level, started in 1943 in the engineers in training program. (army.mil)
Development of radar2
The development of radar and direction finding on radio interception much improved situational awareness, as did improved binoculars and better plotting tables. (strategypage.com)
Dr. Barlow played a leading part in the wartime development of radar. (nae.edu)
Scientists1
Beginning in the 1940s, Fort Monmouth and its satellite of Camp Evans and the U.S. Army Signal Corps Radar Laboratory located there, became a center of Black scientists and engineers. (army.mil)
Time6
Topics discussed include: his family history, his educational background, beginnings of nuclear physics and particle acceleration, Cockcroft-Walton generator, his fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), his World War II research at the MIT radiation lab on radar systems, his time at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, his work with various accelerators including the Cosmotron, and his time with the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Science Foundation. (aip.org)
Litwhiler was the coach at Michigan State in 1973, and when he saw campus police using radar to time speeding cars, he quickly understood that the devices might be applied to baseball. (bleacherreport.com)
Photo #: NH 103695, USS McKee (DD-575) steaming toward the entrance of Chesapeake Bay (position 37 00'N, 75 26'W, course 270) at time 1647Q on 3 July 1943. (navsource.org)
00.05 hrs, Bay of Biscay , outbound: Wellington bomber M for Mother from 172 Sqn RAF located U-103 on radar and made a Leigh Light attack, but the boat was warned by the radar detector, and dived in time to evade six depth charges which exploded harmlessly ahead of her. (uboat.net)
It was also during this time period that the first contingent of Women's Auxiliary Army Corps soldiers arrived in 1943, initially with the 15th Signal Training Regiment, meant to relieve men for field jobs during World War II. (army.mil)
Please note, what follows is the result of me trying to figure out why neither England nor the US has done literally anything in a 1943 Soviet Union game I've had going, this is not the first time this has happened to me either, just the one that finally made me say "whelp. (brokentoys.org)
Wavelength2
It operated on a 50 cm wavelength and the pulsed radar signal was created via a spark-gap. (wikipedia.org)
During the next two years I headed the group developing radar at 3 cm wavelength and then went to Washington as a radar consultant to the Secretary of War. (nobelprize.org)
Summer2
Th is radar-equipped twin-engined fighter appear ed in summer 1943. (simviation.com)
Photo #: 80-G-K-15840, USS McKee (DD-575) steams with another destroyer off Waikiki Beach, Oahu, Hawaii, during training exercises in the summer of 1943. (navsource.org)
Approximately 8,000 civilian women were taught as radio operators, technicians and repair persons, telephone switchboard and instrument repair persons, in early 1943, at various schools and colleges across the Nation. (army.mil)
Operations1
Asked about his fellow Special Operations trainees at Area B in the fall of 1943- many of them brash young paratroopers with parachute wings on their blouses and trouser cuffs jammed into their jump boots-one of them, future Jedburgh John K. Singlaub, who would serve in France and China, and end his Army career as a major general, recalled that "they were all independent thinkers. (nps.gov)
British3
He also obtained a British patent on 23 September 1904 for a full radar system, that he called a telemobiloscope. (wikipedia.org)
Not until the disastrous British raid on Taranto Harbor did Italy's German allies belatedly tell them about the shipborne radar they had developed. (strategypage.com)
On March 12, 1943, the crew of the Champlin, after being followed for six days while guarding a convoy to Casablanca, found (via radar) and sank the German submarine U-130 just west of the Azores. As the convoy continued eastward, the USS Champlain saved all one hundred twenty-seven of the USS Wyoming's crewmen along with two survivors of the SS Molly Pitcher. (mesotheliomasymptoms.com)
Program1
He attended the Navy Electronics School at Harvard University as well as a specialized radar training program organized by MIT at the Harbor Building in Boston, Massachusetts. (unt.edu)
Naval2
Naval aviators could not function without radio, and later radar, coordinating and directing naval air power to accomplish it's mission. (chicagoboyz.net)
Radio and radar were the immediate future of naval combat and naval aviators understood it far better than the "Gun Club. (chicagoboyz.net)
Systems2
Modern high tech radar systems use digital signal processing and machine learning and are capable of extracting useful information from very high noise levels. (wikipedia.org)
Other systems which are similar to radar make use of other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. (wikipedia.org)
Traffic control1
MTACS-2 Mission was to control close air support for 1st Marine Division, radar blind bombing, and air traffic control for 1st MAW. (arlingtoncemetery.net)
Research2
Their careers began at Fort Hancock where the radar research and development was taking place while the Evans Area was being developed. (army.mil)
Well you're going to look like quite the fool when you realize its because in addition to not being able to research radar, I also can't research light tank guns, or any cavalry tech, so obviously I can't build medium tanks or mechanized infantry. (brokentoys.org)
Small1
Here's the small forgotten airport radar at Heathrow standing about 12 stories high. (joannenova.com.au)
Radio3
Radar is a radiolocation system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), angle (azimuth), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. (wikipedia.org)
A radar system consists of a transmitter producing electromagnetic waves in the radio or microwaves domain, a transmitting antenna, a receiving antenna (often the same antenna is used for transmitting and receiving) and a receiver and processor to determine properties of the objects. (wikipedia.org)
Trials were made using infra-red and radio beams, however the most successful method was to home onto Allied radars. (rafmuseum.org.uk)
Area2
On January 8 1943 they accounted for two more bombers, and then another two a week later in the Gambut area. (telegraph.co.uk)
The Wellington circled the area and then approached a second radar contact which proved to be U-566 , left unable to dive by an earlier air attack. (uboat.net)
Modern1
Danny Litwhiler is generally credited with adapting the modern radar gun to baseball. (bleacherreport.com)
Military2
Radar was developed secretly for military use by several countries in the period before and during World War II. (wikipedia.org)
Key studied at Columbia University but in 1943 his studies were interrupted by military service in World War II. (cdc.gov)
Guns1
Radar guns were expensive then, as much as $1,500 each (while a professional model may still cost that much, cheaper versions are available online today for less than $100). (bleacherreport.com)
Night1
The veteran baseball man couldn't stop talking about what he had seen on his radar gun the night before. (bleacherreport.com)
Immediately1
Litwhiler understood almost immediately that the radar gun could be revolutionary. (bleacherreport.com)
High1
What if the airport radar was generating false record-high temperatures through random electrical noise? (joannenova.com.au)
Years1
The radar gun revolution didn't begin until about 40 years ago, and it didn't really get going until the last decade. (bleacherreport.com)