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Paul Woodage - @WW2TV - just streamed the latest social media presentation of the Section 22 Special Interest Group on his Youtube channel.

This thread is going to include the 36 slides that were presented so people can read them at their leisure


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Section 22's first "Wild Weasel" radar hunter, the B-25J Beautiful Ohio
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Note: Spend a lot of time with these maps. The RAAF accomplishments here were "squeegyed out" of the official histories by the USN.

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The HIJMS Atago may have had a PPI radar display salvaged from a H2X radar in a Chinese based B-29 shot down over Korea .

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This is Section 22's second Wild Weasel, Dirty Dora II.

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This is Section 22's third Wild Weasel, "Lady Jane II."

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This is the single most sophisticated USAAF bombing raid in WW2. It's from Stephen M. Perrone's book: "WORLD WAR II B-24 "SNOOPERS”

ozatwar.com/books/snoopers…
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See also:
Electronics Warfare, A Report on Radar Countermeasures – United States. Joint Board on Scientific Information Policy
November 1945
play.google.com/books/reader?i…
catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lo…

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Information on the incredible career of IJN PO1/c Shigetoshi Kudo, 251 Kokutai, J1N1 Gekko Night Fighter Pilot, can be found at this Pacific Wrecks link.

pacificwrecks.com/people/veteran…

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