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Made in 1945 just after WWII ended, TARGET INVISIBLE was produced by the First Motion Picture Unit and features actor Clayton Moore (best known as 'The Lone Ranger') at the end speaking about war bonds. The film follows a squadron of bombers from their base in the Marianas through their mission over Tokyo. Particular emphasis is given on the use of radar for guidance to the target. At this time radar was fairly new and prized as one of the Allies' high tech weapons, and the film explains how it was instrumental in winning the war. At the end of the short, an announcer tells the audience that, while the war is over, Americans can now help win the peace sponsoring science through buying bonds.
Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain. A radar transmits radio waves or microwaves that reflect from any object in their path. A receive radar, which is typically the same system as the transmit radar, receives and processes these reflected waves to determine properties of the object(s).
Radar was secretly developed by several nations in the period before and during World War II. The term RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging. The term radar has since entered English and other languages as a common noun, losing all capitalization.
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