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Planetarium for navigator training 1945
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2023 Sep 21, 14:15 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2023 Sep 21, 14:15 -0700
The Second World War saw miracles of production, not just weapons, but trained people too. From Popular Mechanics magazine in 1945 is this article on US Navy training. One photo shows a planetarium with a twist — literally. Its stars are light bulbs on a rotating frame. Is that an outline of Cygnus on the left side of the picture? Maybe not. The nearby stars don't look quite right. https://books.google.com/books?id=h98DAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA56&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false -- Paul Hirose sofajpl.com
