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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Hanson Baldwin continues to impress with his insight into this war and his ability to sort out what is important from what isn't.

Today it looks like he's beginning a series on radar, which is one of the unsung heroes of the war, overshadowed by other technological breakthroughs in codebreaking and the Manhattan Project. It was key to improved sub-hunting and developing over the horizon naval warfare and a good nightfighting ability for the Navy.

I hope he will tell the whole story of the Rad Lab and Alfred Loomis, but I don't know how much of that was declassified at this time.

14 posted on 07/12/2013 2:48:55 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

You’d enjoy reading “Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II” by Jennet Conant. Great book.


16 posted on 07/12/2013 4:10:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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