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1. The Eighth Air Force is
conducting a Radar Countermeasures pro-
gram as part of its
training and is desirous of the cooperation of units
which
use ground radar equipment in permitting training flights to be
scheduled with aircraft equipped with electronic jammers and "window
to
operate against various types of ground radar sets so that
the results
and effectiveness of the jamming and training might
be observed and made
known.
2. There is a lack of ground radar
equipment convenient to Eighth
Air Force Bases which are located
at Fort Worth, Texas, Tucson, Arizona,
and Roswell, New Mexico;
and since White is within easy flying dis-
tance of all three
bases, your cooperation is particularly desirable.
3. If training flights could be
scheduled so as not to interfere
with any of the projects being
conducted at the White Sands Proving
Ground, and your ground
radar equipment operated and photographs were
taken of the scopes
during the jamming operations and a report of the
effectiveness
of the jamming made to this headquarters, the RCM training
program of this command would be benefitted appreciably.
4. It is therefore requested that
your views in this matter be made
known to this headquarters and,
if favourable, that you furnish a list of
the ground radar
equipment in use, the location of each set, and the hours
during
which the equipment could be in operation. Liaison will then
be
established in some manner between this headquarters and your
office or
the units which operate the radar equipment, whichever
is more favorable,
and an agreement made as to when the training
flights can be scheduled.
A suggested plan is that this
headquarters notify your office, or the
units involved, by
teletype at least forty-eight (48) hours in advance of
A6E subj, "Request for Operation of
Ground Radar Equipment for
Radar Countermeasures
Training" - Cont'd.
any proposed flight giving full particulars as to date, time, and how
the
flight is to be conducted, so that the radar equipment can
be ready and
in operation; of if the flight will
interfere with one of the White Sands
Proving Ground projects,
this headquarters can be informed in sufficient
time to cancel
the flight.
FOR THE
COMMANDING GENERAL:
LEXIE FRYE (signed)
Captain, AGD
Asst Adj General
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