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% GLENVILLE, 111., — This is
i teration radar.
“Fairdale four, this is Lucifer
Vector 270; speed 350, Angels 25;
Bogey one o’clock, Angels 2, over.”
That’s radarman talk in one of the
nation’s most exclusive schools.
Known only in Navy circles since
it was opened four years ago at
Glendale Naval Air Station; the
secret radar school has trained
hundreds of officer specialists.
They are responsible for training
seaman teams who man Combat
Information Centers aboard cruis
ers, subs, destroyers, aircraft car
riers and other combat vessels.
The public is permitted a
glimpse of the school for the first
time. When the U.S. Navy com
bined its various radar schools at
the close of World War II, the
Glenview school became its air
control training center. Here stu
dents practice actual interception
of enemy aircraft.
A Secret Operation
* Capt. Wallace B. Mechling, in
charge, and his executive officer,
* Commander Wilson G. Wright III,
guard the school’s secrets like
hens mothering chicks. Much of
' the training program must be kept
under wraps for national security.
The magic of radar enables the
Navy radarmen to reach out into
space, see invisible enemy ships
and planes, tell their direction and
speed, and direct counter-attack.
It permits the fleet officer to
know where his own ships are
during heavy weather.
The Combat Information Cen
ter has become the nerve center
of a Navy ship. Men who man the
“CIC” directly serve the high com
mand. These officers coordinate
radar information with visual ob
servations from planes and ships
•and from intelligence reports.
Mock Bailies Slaged
The training center for the eyes
and ears of the Navy operates
under simulated combat condi
tions.
Lieut. Commander H. S. Foote,
Jr., is our guide. He points to the
radar towers rising high above the
front of the school. On top of the
towers, radar -antenna rotate slow
ly, day and night. They are the
radio-beam “searchlights.” They
can detect aircraft movements in
excess of 100 miles from the radar
station.” A fleet of Navy jet inter
ceptors is parked on the airfield.
Inside the school, in window
less rooms, is a world of low
lights, codes and radar screens.
Here officers get actual training
in radar techniques. They are
schooled in navigation, electron
ics, tactics, communications, and
air control.
Bent over a radar screen, much
like a television tube, officer stu
dents trace movements of sea and
air craft. Mock battles are set up.
Radarmen watch movements of
the enemy and pass the informa
tion on to battle stations.
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