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Larry, a PT was a Photographic Intelligenceman - from 1957 to 1974/5 when PT and YN (2505) were combined into IS Intelligence Specialist. My own billets as PT were in Fleet Air Intelligence Training Center Norfolk (FAITCLANT) instructing AIOs (and others) in visual and radar photo interpretation and targeting, and in VQ-2 as mission planner and intel analyst. USN Heavy Attack (VC, then VAH - P2V-3C, AJ-1/2, A3D-1/2 aircraft) was initially tasked with carrier-launched nuclear missions on the Soviet Union and Bloc countries, and obviously there was very little actual "radar return" data available for specific target folders. Simulated radar returns for target folders were created from visual photographs, and other analyses, and PTs assisted AIOs in this target packet creation. When SAC got going and the Navy nuke role went to submarines, PTs went on to other things. My website (below) covers the 1948-1955 Navy Heavy Attack period of VC squadrons. Chuck HEAVY ATTACK COMPOSITE (VC-5,6,7,8,9) WEBSITE http://community.webtv.net/charles379/USNComposite FAIRECONRON ONE AND TWO (VQ-1/2) CASUALTIES http://www.anzwers.org/free/navyscpo4/Chuck_Huber_AirCrew.html
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