US Navy in WWII - 80-G-700314 (27933823976)

80-G-700314: Blimps carrying radar find it as vital to their operations as do planes. In the pilot’s compartment an adjustable PPI scope protrudes, swings from the overhead beside the rudderman’s seat. A tube like visor padded at the viewing end to prevent injury when the craft pitches in high winds, insures the exclusion of flight provides a sharp definition of the scope. Photograph released August 14, 1945. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/06/28).