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Description: Original Caption: Radio set SR-271-D at Evans Signal laboratory show shelter for components and operating personnel, 100 foot tower, and antennae modified for PPI display. IFF antenna is shown top center on radar antenna. This is the non portable version of the SR-270 which was otherwise identical in capabilities and equipment to the SR-270. alteration- this version has a border cropped which credits the photo to Lieutenant Zahl. Original at the above location. This photo is credited to First Lieutenant Harold Zahl, who pioneered Radar use by the Army air corps. The photo appears in a paper by him from the period. these photos would not have been saved were it not for Dr. Howard W. Andrews, who had the foresight to preserve them along with Lieutenant (Dr.) Zahl's papers for posterity. Credit and thanks to H.W. Andrews for preseving these photos.
Title: SCR-271-D-600
Credit: http://www.monmouth.army.mil/historian/photolist.php?fname=Radio%2FSCR+270+and+271
Author: Harold Zahl
Permission: This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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