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spence -> RE: Japanese Radar (4/17/2005 5:44:04 AM)
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The same source indicating Oi and Kitikami starting the war with radar also lists various Yugumo class DDs as getting air search radars in the spring of 42. Several of them accompanied Kido Butai to Midway.
I've forgotten exactly where but there is a published account on the web somewhere of Admiral Nagumo's report of the Battle of Midway which includes minute by minute (log???) entries during the American air attacks on Kido Butai. Though there are literally hundreds of entries reporting visual sightings there is not one that indicates that any ship reported a radar contact on any of the American aircraft.
That would seem to indicate either the radars 1) weren't there or
2) weren't used or 3) weren't tied in to the air defense chain of command or 4) weren't functioning at all.
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