The Brain of the Carrier Group: The Combat Information Center
The Brain of the Carrier Group: The Combat Information Center
This lecture will begin with the genesis of the shipboard combat information center (CIC) in World War II from the Guadalcanal campaign (1942) up through that at Okinawa (1945). From there it will move to a discussion of the development of the CIC on aircraft carriers through the Cold War and its current incarnation as […]