Echoes of War
Echoes of War is a 1989 episode from the PBS science series NOVA. World War II may have ended with the atomic bomb, but it was the radar which provided the key to winning the battles leading to Hiroshima. The NOVA team recounts the importance and history of the radar in modern warfare.
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At the outset of World War II radar was a crude early-warning device. By 1945 it was a sophisticated electronic eye that could pinpoint aircraft, detect submarines, and guide bombing missions.
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- WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), Vestron Video (Firm)
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