The Center for Military History has a web site at
<http://imabbs.army.mil/cmh-pg/>.
Some references from their search page at <http://208.132.204.134/> include
the following.
Title: The radar eye blinded : the USAF and electronic warfare, 1945-1955 /
by Daniel Timothy Kuehl.
Author:
Kuehl, Daniel Timothy, 1949-
For similar materials, try:
United States.--Air Force--Weapons systems.
Electronics in military engineering--United States--History.
Radar--United States--History.
Other Information:
Publisher: 1992.
Description: xiii, 277 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.
Location:
LIBRARY......... UG485.K84 1992a
Title: Searching the skies : the legacy of the United States Cold War
defense radar program / [by David F. Winkler].
Author:
Winkler, David F. (David Frank), 1958-
United States. Air Force. Air Combat Command
For similar materials, try:
Radar defense networks--United States--History.
Cold War.
Other Information:
Publisher: Langley AFB, VA : Headquarters Air Combat Command, [1997].
Description: x, 192 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Location:
LIBRARY......... UG 612.3.W56 1997
The Army Corps of Engineers' Office of History address is:
Office of History
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From the Raytheon Corporation's web site at
<http://www.raytheon.com/rsc/dss/dss00.htm>. They may have a corporate
historian(?). Their is a person to call at the end of their division's
services.
Raytheon Defense Systems Segment (DSS), headquartered in Tucson, AZ, is a
leading producer of world-class weapons systems. Our successes span
decades, beginning with our famed SG radar of World War II, to the
Patriot,Paveway, Tomahawk and CCS MKII submarine combat systems,
battle-tested during the Gulf War. Currently, DSS has revenues exceeding $5
billion and employs more than 27,000 people.
DSS is composed of four business units: Air and Missile Defense Systems,
Missile Systems, Naval and Maritime Systems, and Strike Weapons.
Customer-focused, we leverage our expertise, products and resources to
provide total mission solutions in the areas of Surface Navy, Combat
Ground,Combat Air, Undersea Warfare and Air Defense.
Please contact us at the number below to discuss your systems needs and
requirements.
Colleen M. Niccum
520-794-8565 telephone
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Following is a book review that may be of use.
The Invention that Changed the World, by Robert Buderi, Simon & Schuster,
New York, 1996, $30.
This is the intriguing story of the origins of radar and the men who
contributed to its development over the years from just before World War II
to the present. It seems that radar was an idea whose time had come,
because it was invented within a time span of five or six years in a number
of countries during the late 1930s. The United States, Great Britain,
Germany, Japan, Italy, the Soviet Union and France all possessed some
recognizable form of radar going into World War II, though America and
Great Britain had a clear technological lead and managed to keep that
advantage throughout the war.
There are a number of interesting aspects to this book that make it
appealing to a wide audience. There are stories of World War II combat
missions and sea and air battles in which radar played a decisive role,
interspersed with the personal stories of the scientists and engineers who
struggled to bring radar from laboratory to field use under the pressure of
wartime conditions. There is just enough technical terminology to catch the
interest of those readers with a technical bent, allowing them to follow
the technical evolution of solutions to various problems, while not putting
off those who simply want to read a good story.
Buderi, a successful freelance technical writer, has done an excellent job
of putting the story of this invention between the covers of one book in a
way that manages to entertain as well as inform.
John I. Witmer
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Marc Kodack
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