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To: dinodino

You are better off than I am. My time was about 50 years ago now. We used it to locate our LST, but the OX and 1st class quartermaster took morning and evening fixes when they could to confirm where we were. My most clear memory of it was that it positioned us 50 miles closer to Okinawa than we actually were as we approached from the North. It was nice that the error was not in the other direction.


8 posted on 11/29/2019 7:24:23 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Retain Mike

The only (very minor) advantage I can see is that LORAN will not be degraded a la GPS in the case of military action...however, anything using LORAN for navigation shouldn’t care about GPS degradation anyway.


10 posted on 11/29/2019 7:27:28 PM PST by dinodino
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