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Photographer: Donald Barry Ratsch
Taken: Circa 1958
Caption: U.S. Naval Facility 1958 at the gate
Additional Description: That's me at the watch gate while waiting for my clearance to come thru. After clearance came thru I worked down the hill in the Quonset hut where the sonar men worked and with their advanced equipment could detect Russian submarines 1500 miles away and could tell how many rpms their propellers were turning. When spotting a target they put the info and location of the target thru a slot that dropped into the crypto room where I worked and we encrypted the information and sent it forward to Norfolk, Va. The work was classified secret at the time and was later upgraded to top secret. That was 56 years ago.
Submitted: November 11, 2014, by Donald Barry Ratsch of Dundalk, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p291877
File Size: 0.684 Megabytes

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