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Local Girls Worked As Plane Spotters During Cold War

In the waning days of World War II, with American authorities worried about the possibility of German or Japanese air attacks on the United States, the Ground Observer Corps was formed as a civil defense program of the United State Army Air Forces. The goal was to protect U.S. territory from air attack and employed up to 1.5 million civilian observers at 14,000 coastal observation posts to search the skies for possible enemy aircraft and to report any suspicious or threatening craft to the Aircraft Warning Service to be carried up the chain-of-command for authentication.

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