USS PARLE DE 708

USS Parle DE 708

USS PARLE DE 708

Taken around 1950, probably in Chesapeake Bay.
Signal flags are the call sign "NTIQ," or, at that time NAN TARE ITEM QUEEN.
The topmost radar antenna is a "bedspring array," and is the SA air-search radar.
The radar antenna just below it is enclosed in a "radome," and is the SU surface search radar.

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Photo and Information submitted by Joseph Cyr, formerly Radarman, RDSN, at the time the photos were taken.
Assigned to the USS Parle DE-708 from May 1951 to about May 1953.