SCR-584

The SCR-584 Army Mobile Radar Unit was one of the most versatile, accurate, and successful hardware systems used in WWII. The automatic tracking and fire control system and an M-9 gun director computer. It was designed to control a battery of four 90-mm antiaircraft guns, and was also used to direct blind flying bombers, fighters, and reconnaissance planes in overcast weather, giving the target, dive angle, and bomb release pointfrom the remote radar site. Trailer mounted, an elevator lowers the antenna inside for traveling and the entire system can be set up, or travel ready, in 30 minutes.

The SCR-584 played a vitalrole at the battle of Salerno, Italy, at Anzio beachhead, in the coastal defense of England, on D-Day in Normandy, in the Battle of the Bulge and in the Pacific Theatre.