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There are six episodes on the podcast as of 25 Sept 2021. They are:
21 Apr 2021 Introducing the History of Crows (1 min)
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2 June 2021 A New Epoch (20 min)
Mr. Charles “Chuck” Quintero from the Johns Hopkins University of Applied Physics Laboratory, who discusses the evolution of natural philosophy from Sir Isaac Newton to James Clerk Maxwell to Heinrich Hertz. 5/
16 June 2021 Sparks Across the Atlantic (17 Min)
Harry Klancer and Al Klace from the Information Age Learning Center trace the life of Guglielmo Marconi through his dreams as a young engineer to the shrewd businessman who ushered in the dawn of the Electronic Age.
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28 Jul 2021 The Echo (23 min)
Mr. Ray Chase from the Information Age Learning Center and Mr. Mike Simmons from the National Electronics Museum share the story about early radar development and electromagnetic warfare in the early 20th Century. 7/
11 Aug 2021 Beam Wars (23 min)
Radar historian, Dr. Phil Judkins, University of Leeds, U.K. tells the little told stories of EW in WWII, starting with the Battle of Britain walking through The Beam Wars in the blitz.
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22 Sept 2021 Codebreakers
Dr. Phil Judkins from Leeds University and Mr. John Stubbington, former RAF Wing Commander responsible for ECM Development with the Bomber Command Development Unit and the author of "Kept in the Dark" walks you through the RAF SIGINT reports in WW2.
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Declarations of interest:
I'm a dues paying member of the A.O.C. and the podcast series is corporately sponsored by B.A.E.
This thread is my own & independent of either A.O.C. or it's chapters behest.
In 1943 the Harlem Hellfighters 369th regiment was broken up and organized into the 369th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion and the 870th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion.
One of the most difficult issues in researching & writing about electronic warfare in WW2’s Pacific Theater is it’s systematic exclusion from the USN’s official histories. This exclusion was as systematic was it was intentional.
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The war diaries of the US Navy are both digitized and available on the Fold3.com service.
A simple search on the radar decoy code name “Window” in the WW2 War Diaries gets thousands of hits. 2/ fold3.com
Window was one of the names for radar dipole decoys dropped from A/C, rockets, bombs and artillery.
The Japanese were both technically skilled and increasingly proficient in its use by 1945.
And, like those thousands of Fold3.com war diary hits, their efforts 3/
For those of you interested in WW2 electronic warfare, there are Paul Woodage's (@WW2TV) earlier presentations with Matt Bone's radar hunting Typhoons here:
The Radar War Before D-Day ()
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And Paul's presentation with Thomas Withington's presentation with RAF 100 Group here: ()
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Plus a 7 July 2021 one just posted by the History Indoor channel titled
The Darkest Moonlit Night: RAF Bomber Command's raid on Nuremberg 30/31 March 1944 here:
The Section 22 Special Interest Group's presentation on Gen MacArthur's secret radar hunters will be on WW2TV tomorrow, July 7, 2021.
Check it out.
Section 22 was a secret WW2 radar intelligence unit in the S.W. Pacific.
This tweet thread hosts an 82 slide information packet that was released over the six days prior to the Feb 2021 CIMSEC Bilgepumps podcast on Section 22.