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17 a Japanese zero airplane coming at him with the sun right behind the zero. He worked on a number of radio wave propagation problems, some of which were involved with the question of detecting German submarines and keeping radio silence and how to get a directional bearing when you are out in the Pacific, hundreds of miles from any land. There were just a whole host of problems that Menzel's particularly interesting background was helpful in solving. Menzel, unlike many astronomers, had a...