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The Stars in Their Courses (All-Star Preview-7/11/39)
Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz
| 7/11/39
| John Kieran
Posted on 07/11/2009 6:13:04 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson



TOPICS: History; Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; realtime
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
[At
July 11, 1939] twenty Radar stations were in existence between Portsmouth and Scapa Flow, able to detect aircraft flying above ten thousand feet, with ranges varying from fifty to a hundred and twenty miles. A satisfactory anti-jamming device and a simplified method of I.F.F. [Identification Friend or Foe] were now actually in production. Flight trials were taking place with experimental sets in aircraft to try to home on enemy machines. The experimental sets for the location of ships from the air had proved too bulky for air-service purposes, and were passed to the Admiralty for possible use by ships.
Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm
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posted on
07/11/2009 6:14:03 AM PDT
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Ping. Radar update at reply #2.
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posted on
07/11/2009 6:15:55 AM PDT
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
That is some beautiful sportswriting. “Marse Joe McCarthy” ... wow, they sure don’t write like that any more!
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posted on
07/11/2009 1:47:18 PM PDT
by
Colonel_Flagg
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