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FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS by project diana team members

All five team members wrote firsthand accounts of or provided interviews about the feat itself, the work that led up to it, and the publicity that followed, including both technical details and personal narratives.

Contemporary accounts

DeWitt, Lt. Col. John. Radio to the Moon. Radio Craft, April 1946, pp. 464, 501-503.

DeWitt, John H. Jr. & Stodola, E.K. Detection of Radio Signals Reflected from the Moon. Proceedings of the I.R.E., March, 1949, pp. 229-241.

Kauffman, Herbert. A DX Record: To the Moon and Back - How the Moon-Radar Feat was Accomplished. QST, May 1946, pp. 65-68.

Mofenson, Jack. Radar Echoes From the Moon. Electronics, A McGraw Hill Publication, April 1946, pp.  92ff.


Newsreel footage, Jan 31, 1946.

Webb, Harold D.,  PROJECT DIANA - Army Radar Contacts the Moon. Sky and Telescope, no 54, April, 1946, pp 3-6.


WOR Radio Broadcast of Interview of Project Diana Team (including replication of the moon shot). January, 1946.

Later reflections

Stodola, E. King. Oral History Interview by his daughter (excerpt), conducted October 2-4, 1979.