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Photograph
Alfred Loomis pioneered the key navigation technology of LORAN.
Artifact
The first LORAN receiver for aircraft use to enter service.
Photograph
It contained a crystal ocillator and was key to the LORAN system.
Photograph
Long-range Navy patrol aircraft required better all-weather navigation systems like LORAN.
Film
Length: 2 Minutes, 17 Seconds
Film
Length: 2 Minutes, 1 Second
Illustration
In a hyperbolic system such as LORAN, a receiver on an aircraft or ship picks up radio signals broadcast by one or more pairs of radio stations spaced hundreds of miles apart.
Map
By the end of World War II, the LORAN system could be used over 30 percent of the globe.
Film
Length: 17 Minutes, 22 Seconds
Photograph
The typically austere conditions present at many remote LORAN stations during World War II.