LEM. Just goes to show, doesn't it? In those days my company in the Pacific occasionally had problems with lack of spares for weather radar and I have had a few hairy times with u/s weather radar over the Pacific.
Funny thing though was that for years in the Royal Australian Air Force I flew heavy bombers and transports without radar and got beaten up by Cb's and was never unduly alarmed. Where ignorance is bliss, I suppose.