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3 JUN 1947
A6E 413_44
SUBJECT: Request for Operation of Ground Radar Equipment for Radar
Countermeasures TrainingTO: Commanding Officer
White Sands Proving Ground Command
Las Cruces, New Mexico
ATTENTION: Frequency Coordinator (1st Lt R.F. Blomquist)
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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