While my Dad was flying ASW helicopters and recovering astronauts. I asked him about the Gobi and it turned out he knew one of the men. Dad was class of '46 that graduated in '45, and before he went to flight school he was in China while the Communist we're taking over.
I asked him how important it really was to have a weather station there and he said it was vital! Subs could provide some weather data but they really need a longer range forecast that the subs couldn't provide.
Most folks don't know that the firebombing of Tokyo produced more deaths and destruction than the A-Bomb. Those missions had to have data from Gobi to be successful.
They were brave men and had we taken advantage of the relationships they formed the history of Mongolia might have been different.
I asked him how important it really was to have a weather station there and he said it was vital! Subs could provide some weather data but they really need a longer range forecast that the subs couldn't provide.
Most folks don't know that the firebombing of Tokyo produced more deaths and destruction than the A-Bomb. Those missions had to have data from Gobi to be successful.
They were brave men and had we taken advantage of the relationships they formed the history of Mongolia might have been different.