Re: Historically Inaccurate Fiction

"James Linn" <jlinn@xxxxxxxxxxx> posted July 26:

> Germany indeed did have Radar, deployed as early as 1941.

Half right . . . German centimetric (high frequency, high
accuracy) appears to have been better in quality than the
British, thus enabled ground control of night fighters which
Britain never attempted on the same scale: cf. also
commando raids on Bruneval and other Freya radar units
to aid British countermeasures. JL is right that, regardless
of technical quality, the British organized radar better,
cf. the Fighter Command control system of 1940.

Notoriously, Germans attempted in the summer of 1939
to assess British radar research by sending an airship
(Zeppelin type) up the east coast off Bawdsey, first site
of TRE. It appears that for no particular reason Bawdsey
was not transmitting when the unseen airship was near
enough, thus frustrating the mission.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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