Maybe the location of the radar unit didn’t make any difference, but at a higher elevation it might have detected the planes at a greater distance, and in that case they might have had more time to figure it out.
In any case, it seems to me that both in Hawaii in 1941 and today on our southern border, national security should override fanatically strict environmental policies.
I’m all for building the fence.
Very interesting about our radar in Hawaii. And I agree that radar up on the Oahu mountain tops would have done a better job of detecting the Japanese war planes coming to attack on Dec7th 1941