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During the 1930s, scientists around the world worked on a technology project they knew would be vital to national security. Eight nations—the U.S., England, Germany, Japan, Italy, France, Russia and New Zealand—were conducting secret experiment on a device that could bounce radio waves off metallic objects. The Brits called it RDF, short for Radio Detection and Finding. Here it went by a slightly different name: Radio Detection and Ranging—or Radar. When the first models were developed by the Army and tested at the Twin Lights, it had a much cooler name: The Mystery Ray. The radar experiments conducted at the Twin Lights would contribute to the saving of countless thousands of lives and helped win World War II.
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On Hallowed Ground
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