Qualla: Opana Radar Site https://qualla.com/opana-radar-site en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/e/opana-radar-site-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Opana Radar Site https://qualla.com/opana-radar-site Opana Radar Site: Introduction https://qualla.com/opana-radar-site/ Photo credit Andrew Corbin, CC BY-SA 4.0. At 7:02 on the morning of December 7, 1941, two Army privates on a hilltop above Oahu's North Shore watched a massive blip bloom across their radar screen. Privates George Elliot and Joseph Lockard had been operating an SCR-270 mobile radar unit at the Opana Point station, and what they were seeing was unprecedented -- a return signal so large it dwarfed anything in their limited experience. They called it in. The response they received would become one of the most consequential misjudgments in American military history.

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/e/opana-radar-site-wp/87ze-opana-radar-site-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Opana Radar Site: The Machine on the Hill https://qualla.com/opana-radar-site/ Photo credit Andrew Corbin, CC BY-SA 4.0. The SCR-270 was America's first long-range search radar, developed at the Signal Corps laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, around 1937. By December 1939, the U.S. military had established an Aircraft Warning Service using radar to defend American territory, and six mobile ...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/e/opana-radar-site-wp/87ze-opana-radar-site-the-machine-on-the-hill.mp3 0:06 2 full Opana Radar Site: Thirty-Four Minutes https://qualla.com/opana-radar-site/ Photo credit Andrew Corbin, CC BY-SA 4.0. The blip they detected at 7:02 a.m. showed a large formation of aircraft approaching from the north, roughly 132 miles out. Lockard, the more experienced of the two, recognized that this was no ordinary signal. They phoned the information center at Fort Shafter, where Lieutenant ...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/e/opana-radar-site-wp/87ze-opana-radar-site-thirty-four-minutes.mp3 0:06 3 full Opana Radar Site: Breakfast at Kawailoa https://qualla.com/opana-radar-site/ Photo credit Andrew Corbin, CC BY-SA 4.0. Private McDonald, another operator at the station, had been relieved at about 7:40 a.m. He walked back to camp and woke his tent mate with words that would prove grimly prophetic: "Shim, the Japs are coming." Elliot and Lockard, their tracking now impossible due to the echoes bou...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/e/opana-radar-site-wp/87ze-opana-radar-site-breakfast-at-kawailoa.mp3 0:06 4 full Opana Radar Site: A Landmark Without a Trace https://qualla.com/opana-radar-site/ Photo credit Andrew Corbin, CC BY-SA 4.0. Today, the Opana Radar Site is both a National Historic Landmark and an IEEE Milestone, recognizing the first operational use of radar by the United States in wartime. But visitors expecting to find the radar itself will be disappointed. The SCR-270 was a mobile unit, mounted on ...

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