I guess that 3% tax increase on Tea in Boston can be forgiven...
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Political Correctness
A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Nowadays our government leaders have learnt that honesty and fair play are no longer the way that things are done. Unfortunately, the police haven't locked the bastards up yet :-(
Wonder if it was in partial payment for lend lease and such. We built Radar (Dad was production supervisor for Naval Radar) and once the war was over, he was drafted! Went to Germany. Naturally.
The British Navy got American Radar that was made and the Magnetron was used in the transmission section of the output.
It was after all a joint project - freedom - at the time.
It seems to me that today's people often forget how it was (since it was long before their birth...) and often guess or hear wrongly.
Martin
Martin H. Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net TSRA, Life; NRA LOH & Endowment Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot"s Medal. NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member.
This came up, IIRC, on sci.electronics.design last year. I believe the National Reaserch Board of Canada still has that magnetron in thier possesion-
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One of my electronics instructors was at one time head of electronics warfare for the Canadian Navy. He had been around when radar was introduced, told us about the snorkle they some how got ahold off a U-Boat that was coated with layers of different rubber compounds to stealth it from radar, Ain't Nuthin New Under the Sun. :/
Yea Martin, I get a little discoruaged that so many don't even remember the Korean war let alone WWII. ...lew... (who remembers the last and participated in the first)
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