RB-26 In Korea

From the USAF Museum newsletter.

Interesting!

It is interesting to read about LORAN in the Korean War. During my seagoing career, we avoided the usage of old LORAN A equipment in coastal waters due to low accuracy and time-consuming procedures. It was OK in the oceans as a substitute for the sextant, especially when satellite schedules were not maintained. (GPS was not available yet, only Transit). Still, I prefered Omega system and its Soviet clone RSDN-20 due to simplicity of the receivers and considered LORAN A boxes just as another layer of redundancy.
Kudos to air navigators who managed to exploit LORAN to its full capabilities in its first generation form.

The local sheriff's dept was tossing out some stuff they removed form their military surplus helicopters and I ended up with a Trimble unit that is a combined GPS and LORAN receiver. The GPS function probably still works but hooking it up would be a real chore.

A combined receiver should have later LORAN C definitely. It was very good for its time.