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December 31, 2017

CRY HAVOC, AND UNLEASH THE TUBAS OF WAR! War Tubas: The strange history of listening for approaching aircraft before radar.

*Japanese Emperor Hirohito inspects acoustic locators, aka “war tubas,” used to listen for incoming aircraft, in a pre-WWII photo.*

(Found via Jonah Goldberg, who is busy “Trying to figure out what the ‘war tuba’ analogue for ‘gaydar’ would be.”)

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