Small Town, Big Secrets: Inside the Boca Raton Army Airfield During World War IIIn 1940, the town of Boca Raton, Florida was unaware that it would become the focus of an important and secret operation that would prove critical in the impending world war. As America mobilized, Boca Raton became the location of a new army airfield on which a select portion of the country's new military recruits would be trained in the use of airborne radar--at the time a top-secret and experimental technology. This book retraces for the first time the development and impact of airborne radar in the war, the use of the Boca Raton Hotel as a military training facility, and the development of the Boca Raton Army Air Field and its impact on Boca Raton. |
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Small Town, Big Secrets: Inside the Boca Raton Army Air Field During World ... Sally J. Ling No preview available - 2012 |