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Trained in the use of the Eureka radar, holophan lights, and colored
ground panels, the pathfinders dropped thirty minutes before the main
airborne landing to provide ground guidance for successive airborne
jumps. The concept of the pathfinders proved successful and they were
used during the remainder of World War II. The story of the airborne
pathfinders and the vital part they played in airborne operations during
the Second World War has rarely been told. In this new book, Jeff Moran
tells the story of the operations they led, the equipment used - much of
it unique to the pathfinders - and has memorialized them by noting, in
many cases, the individual teams of pathfinders.
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