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28 Sep, 22 tweets, 7 min read
While year 2020 has been a train wreck.  It has had developments as far as the history of Gen. MacArthur's Sec. 22 radar hunters are concerned. Thanks to the work of the Sec 22 e-mail list. The historical record of Section 22 has been mapped. Image
When my research partner started his searches at the National Archives in Maryland in 2015, not only were there no finding aides on the subject of Section 22. 

There was no single entry for Section 22 in its entire catalog of documents!
By 2018, all the readily available documents on Section 22 in the various national archives involved had been mapped.

The mapped work product of Section 22 in its June 1943 to August 1945 official existence included 333 "Current Statements" of urgent intelligence to combat... Image
... units, hundreds of aircraft mission logs, dozens of submarine signals intercept patrol logs, monthly reports for most of its 27 month official existence (there were gaps during MacArthur's GHQ moves to Hollandia in New Guinea, Tacloban in Leyte and Manila in Luzon), Image
...several special reports on Japanese radar and many radar coverage maps across the entire SWPA theater. ImageImage
Online Sec 22 primary resources include:

DSIR World War 2 Narrative No.3: Radar, Copy No.3 (Archives New Zealand Reference AAOQ W3424 16) [Grahame Fraser]
digital-library.canterbury.ac.nz/data/library7/….
o RAAF Command Headquarters - RCM [Radio Counter Measure] current statements - Section 22
NAA: A11093, 676/4A11 PART 7
naa12.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetriev…
o British influence in Section 22 (Radio Countermeasures Division)
naa12.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetriev…
o [No 20 Squadron - General Reconnaissance/Flying Boat Squadron] -
Minelaying Operations - Radar Countermeasures Support
naa12.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetriev…
o Japanese Radar - General Headquarters, South-West Pacific Area, Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Section 22 APO500
NAA: AA1966/5, 447
recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetriev…
There is a fairly complete Sec 22 primary source list at this link at the H-War post --

networks.h-net.org/node/12840/dis…
Published articles and academic papers from member of the Section 22 Special Interest Group starting in 2015 include:

2015

Trent Telenko, History Week End — Who Were Those Guys? Section 22, GHQ, SWPA as of Oct 1944
Posted on April 12th, 2015
chicagoboyz.net/archives/48110…
Peter Dunn "SECTION 22" GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, SWPA
AN INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION DURING WWII

Copyright 2015
ozatwar.com/sigint/section…
2016

History Friday - Imperial Japan’s Philippine Radar Network 1944-45
Posted by Trent Telenko on June 10th, 2016
chicagoboyz.net/archives/52662…
Radar Countermeasures Development in Australia :
A Case Study of Multinational Co-operation in World War II
at Fenton, Northern Territory

Craig Arthur Bellamy

Student thesis:  Honors - CDU

espace.cdu.edu.au/eserv/cdu:5620…
2017

William Cahill, "Thirteenth Air Force Radio Countermeasures Operations, 1944-45"
Air Power History Summer 2017 -Volume 64, Number 2, Pages 9-27
afhistory.org/wp-content/upl… Image
2018

William Cahill, "Far East Air Forces RCM Operations in the Final Push on Japan,"
Air Power History Spring 2018 - Volume 65, Number 1, pages 37-47
afhistory.org/wp-content/upl… Image
2019

Trent Telenko, "The Great South Pacific IFF Visitation"
October 13, 2019
facebook.com/groups/1414345… Image
2020

The beginnings of the secret Australian radar countermeasures unit during the Pacific War Feb 2020
Craig Arthur Bellamy
Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - CDU
researchers.cdu.edu.au/files/34166746…
After Craig Bellamy's PHD thesis was published, the initial mission of the the Section 22 Special Interest Group was completed.

MacArthur's Radar hunters have been rescued from obscurity and future scholars now have a story and a map of primary & secondary sources to follow.
Not a bad piece of work for 18 guys on an e-mail list.

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