Summary Part of Aviation in the Pacific Week on WW2TV Trent Telenko is a retired after a 33-year career US Defense Department Quality Auditor, Team lead and Staff Specialist. Trent's interests are in World War 2 South Pacific theater, the cancelled by atomic bombing Operation Downfall invasion of Japan and the deployment, use and politics of radar across all the theaters of WW2. Trent has written six Chicagoboyz posts to date on the on Allied and Japanese land-based radars in the Pacific War and this presentation "The Horse Shoe Nail of Victory of the Guadalcanal Air Campaign" is based on a similarly named 2019 article. This presentation will tell the story of Master Technical Sargent Dermott H. MacDonnell and how his performance as chief radar operator for Marine Air Group 23's (MAG-23) SCR-270 radar made the difference between keeping and losing daylight air superiority over Henderson Field in the darkest days of the Guadalcanal campaign. MacDonnell was the Guadalcanal Air Campaign's "Horseshoe Nail of Victory."

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