Thread by @TrentTelenko

@NavalHistWar @AC_NavalHistory The story of the Brodie device is relatively easy to find. The April 1946 issue of the Field Artillery Journal had a three page article on the development history.

The USS LST-776 carried the device to Iwo Jima & Okinawa.

The Marines didn't think much of it. The 77th ID loved

@NavalHistWar @AC_NavalHistory ...the Brodie device as L4 Cubs launched from it spotted several hundred explosive suicide boats at Kerama Retto before they landed.

See:
combinedfleet.com/OkinawaEMB.htm

@NavalHistWar @AC_NavalHistory Drawings from the Brodie patents are on-line here:

rexresearch.com/brodie/brodie.…

@NavalHistWar @AC_NavalHistory If Operation Olympic had kicked off after the Atomic bombings of Japan. There were no end to the fun and games the Brodie devices would have gotten into.

The 40th ID and all three US Army Corps had a Brodie LST.

@NavalHistWar @AC_NavalHistory While the USMC was going to put it's L-5's on CVE's. All the Brodie LST's would not only be spotting for artillery & air strikes.

Some of them would have live TV Cameras!

@NavalHistWar @AC_NavalHistory Dr. Vladimir Zworykin’s Block III Television Seeker Guidance System showed up all over the place in Operation Olympic.

The OSS-FEAF Javaman boat bomb -- intended to attack the Kanmon railway tunnel between Honshu & Kyushu -- also carried the puppy.

@NavalHistWar @AC_NavalHistory There was a Signal Corps Technical Team that demonstrated the L-5 plus camera kit to MacArthur in May 1945 and it was in the August 1945 Operation Olympic invasion plans.

chicagoboyz.net/archives/43669…

@NavalHistWar @AC_NavalHistory One of the L-5 plus TV planes was part of the Operation Blacklist occupation.

@NavalHistWar @AC_NavalHistory The major developmental issue for the Block III TV equipped L-5 was it's downlink was the same downlink as the USN's Project Cadillac AEW radar planes....also in Olympic.

See my earlier tweet photos here:

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1360646497738629125

@NavalHistWar @AC_NavalHistory However, the biggest role of the Brodie L-5 planes had to so with their ability to move whole blood from the Koshiki Retto sea plane base through the Brodie LST's to shore if or when blood bank LST's got blasted by the Japanese.

@NavalHistWar @AC_NavalHistory This link for the best photo of a Brodie Device in operation that I have found --

pipercubforum.com/lbird.htm

@NavalHistWar @AC_NavalHistory This photo of a Zworykin’s Block III television seeker in an L-5 similar to the one demonstrated to Douglas MacArthur.

See my:

Secrets of the Pacific Warfare Board — Block III TV in the Invasion of Japan, Fourth of an Occasional Series
August 15th, 2014
chicagoboyz.net/archives/44897…

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