Larry, a PT was a Photographic Intelligenceman - from 1957 to 1974/5
when PT and YN (2505) were combined into IS Intelligence Specialist.

My own billets as PT were in Fleet Air Intelligence Training Center
Norfolk (FAITCLANT) instructing AIOs (and others) in visual and radar
photo interpretation and targeting, and in VQ-2 as mission planner and
intel analyst.

USN Heavy Attack (VC, then VAH - P2V-3C, AJ-1/2, A3D-1/2 aircraft) was
initially tasked with carrier-launched nuclear missions on the Soviet
Union and Bloc countries, and obviously there was very little actual
"radar return" data available for specific target folders.

Simulated radar returns for target folders were created from visual
photographs, and other analyses, and PTs assisted AIOs in this target
packet creation. When SAC got going and the Navy nuke role went to
submarines, PTs went on to other things.

My website (below) covers the 1948-1955 Navy Heavy Attack period of VC
squadrons.

Chuck



HEAVY ATTACK COMPOSITE (VC-5,6,7,8,9) WEBSITE
http://community.webtv.net/charles379/USNComposite

FAIRECONRON ONE AND TWO (VQ-1/2) CASUALTIES
http://www.anzwers.org/free/navyscpo...r_AirCrew.html