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USN EC-130G 151891

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TACAMO aircraft. Used for re-transmitting VLF signals to the Polaris class submarines as a "failsafe" system during the Cold War. It was in Pago Pago spying on the French when they tested nuclear devices and transmitting signals to see if nuclear blasts would degrade the US signals.