Summary In February 1942, the Royal Australian Navy decided that it needed a radio/radar countermeasures section to prevent the Japanese from doing to them what the Germans had done to the Royal Navy when it snuck the fast battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen through the English Channel with the assistance of radio and radar jamming. In June 1943 this "Radio and Radar Countermeasures Division" was taken over by MacArthur's South West Pacific Area General Headquarters (SWPA GHQ) under the direct command of General Spencer Akin, MacArthur's Chief Signals officer and one of the "Bataan Gang." The new Section 22 supported General MacArthur's drive to the Philippines and had a role in mapping Japanese radar networks throughout New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, South China, Formosa and the Ryukyus (including Okinawa) and the Japanese home islands. My guests today are Trent Telenko and Craig Bellamy, members of the Section 22 Special interest Group group and are joining us from three continents - hence the time of the show.

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