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When the members of the Tizard Mission brought one [magnetron] to America in 1940, they carried the most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores. It sparked the whole development of microwave radar and constituted the most important item in reverse Lease-Lend.

James Phinney Baxter III

James Phinney Baxter III

James Phinney Baxter III

Born: February 15, 1893

Died: June 17, 1975 (aged 82)

Bio: James Phinney Baxter III was an American historian, educator, and academic, who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Scientists Against Time. He was also the author of The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship.

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