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>The RAF advised against such a strategy, having tried the same type of raids themselves before American entry into the war; And before the RAF, the Lufwaffe h
by RachelF 10y ago
>The RAF advised against such a strategy, having tried the same type of raids themselves before American entry into the war;
And before the RAF, the Lufwaffe had also learned the same lesson over England in the winter of 1940-41.
Ground imaging radars like H2S and H2X appeared later in the war, but still did not allow for accurate bombing.
- dboreham 10y agoOne of the problems in assessing the performance of various technologies in WWII is that for decades after much of what was done was kept secret. So in some cases we are still discussing what were really cover stories, either for the use of airborne radar or code breaking. Quite old now but a decent first-hand account can be read in Prof Jones "Most Secret War" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Victor_Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Victor_Jones Something I suspect not widely known, and covered in that book is that many night time british bombing raids later in the war were successful because they used GPS. Ok, not actually GPS/Navstar, but an early terrestrial predecessor : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oboe_(navigation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oboe_(navigation)
- RachelF 10y agoYep, I have a copy of Most Secret War. The BBC made a documentary loosely based on it in 1977. It is on YouTube [1]. Well worth watching, they don't make documentaries like that anymore. The episode on Enigma has been banned, but the rest are still available. [1] https://youtu.be/fkCW4g8It_A?list=PLBYclEE4V19AiC_aSv3vbc6v0ms9o5qLV https://youtu.be/fkCW4g8It_A?list=PLBYclEE4V19AiC_aSv3vbc6v0...