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Your Signal is Buster: U.S. Navy Fighter Direction in World War II

Barrett Tillman

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YOUR SIGNAL IS BUSTER
U.S. Navy Fighter Direction in World War II

Barrett Tillman

Radar hardly existed before World War II, but in a handful of years it became common around the globe in military and civilian circles. Today, it is taken so much for granted that even people who lived through the war do not know the origin of the term: Radio Detection And Ranging.

From British experiments in the mid 1930s, radar swiftly gained prominence as a war-fighting tool in every theater of operation. The first large-scale use of radar occurred during the Battle of Britain in 1940, allowing the outnumbered Royal Air Force to compensate for Germany’s superior numbers.

The same defensive use of radar translated to sea, where the U.S. and Royal navies developed a sophisticated air-defense network. Many of the techniques accepted as common today originated in the 1940s, when powerful naval task forces integrated radar, radio, and high-performance fighter aircraft as a defense against enemy air attack. At the center of the network was a cadre of highly trained fighter direction officers , wielding a variety of radars to detect and track incoming “bogies” until they could be confirmed as friendlies or “bandits.”

Despite the vital importance of FDOs in conduct of the Pacific War from 1941 to 1945, the subject has received surprisingly little attention. This landmark treatise by naval historian Barrett Tillman—updated from the original 1980 version—features comments from World War II fighter directors and staff officers, filling a void that has existed for decades in the literature of war at sea.

Language: English

Pages: 19

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: June 07, 2016

Your Signal is Buster: U.S. Navy Fighter Direction in World War II

Barrett Tillman

0/5 ( ratings)

YOUR SIGNAL IS BUSTER
U.S. Navy Fighter Direction in World War II

Barrett Tillman

Radar hardly existed before World War II, but in a handful of years it became common around the globe in military and civilian circles. Today, it is taken so much for granted that even people who lived through the war do not know the origin of the term: Radio Detection And Ranging.

From British experiments in the mid 1930s, radar swiftly gained prominence as a war-fighting tool in every theater of operation. The first large-scale use of radar occurred during the Battle of Britain in 1940, allowing the outnumbered Royal Air Force to compensate for Germany’s superior numbers.

The same defensive use of radar translated to sea, where the U.S. and Royal navies developed a sophisticated air-defense network. Many of the techniques accepted as common today originated in the 1940s, when powerful naval task forces integrated radar, radio, and high-performance fighter aircraft as a defense against enemy air attack. At the center of the network was a cadre of highly trained fighter direction officers , wielding a variety of radars to detect and track incoming “bogies” until they could be confirmed as friendlies or “bandits.”

Despite the vital importance of FDOs in conduct of the Pacific War from 1941 to 1945, the subject has received surprisingly little attention. This landmark treatise by naval historian Barrett Tillman—updated from the original 1980 version—features comments from World War II fighter directors and staff officers, filling a void that has existed for decades in the literature of war at sea.

Language: English

Pages: 19

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: June 07, 2016

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