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Bombardier Admin and Arbiter Registered: January 2002 Posts: 1,953	This is a German WW11 radar dish photographed at the Imperial War Museum Duxford .
	· Date: Sat 14 2, 2004 · Views: 3400 · Filesize: 102.3kb, 79.4kb · Dimensions: 900 x 675 ·
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Polar

Registered: February 2004
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Sat 14 2, 2004 16:38

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Fantastic photo

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Viking

RSM (WO1)

Registered: January 2004
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Tue 7 6, 2005 19:00

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yes it is a nice pic is this the radar they nabed just before the dam busters raid

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Zofo

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Registered: March 2004
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Wed 8 6, 2005 06:51

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Is this a Wurzburg radar? It looks similar.

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Matzos

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Wed 8 6, 2005 07:07

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That's right, it is a Wurburg radar system

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Drone_pilot

Registered: February 2004
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Wed 8 6, 2005 16:39

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In February 1942, men of the newly formed British 1st Airborne Division, went into action for the first time. In one of the most daring raids of the war, they seized, and brought back to England, vital components of a German 'Wurzburg' radar installation.

Radar was one of the key, high-technology battlegrounds of the war. It secured R.A.F. Fighter Command's narrow victory in the "Battle of Britain" but the Luftwaffe also used radio navigation aids for blind bombing in the blitz. In 1941 British bombers began to take the war to the heart of Germany forcing the Luftwaffe to develop its own defensive radars. Britain responded with jamming techniques and a private battle, the "battle of the beams," developed between boffins on both sides to gain the advantage. Heading up the British team was Dr. R.V. Jones of the Air Staff.

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Matzos

Registered: December 2004
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Thu 9 6, 2005 04:20

Major John Dutton Frost, led a company of the Parachute Regiment on the famous Bruneval Raid on the French coast after the secrets of the Wurzburg radar- the first significant British airborne action.
He then as commander of the 2nd Parachute Battalion, commanded about 600 lightly-armed men who held on to the north side of a bridge over the River Rhine at Arnhem waiting for relief from the rest of Airborne Division to his west, and a tank division to his south (Operation Market Garden). The help never came and Frost and his men were surrendered after four days of fighting. Following his surrender, Frost was held as a prisoner of war at Spanenberg and later a hospital in Obermassfeldt . He was freed when the area was overrun by United States troops in March 1945.

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Zofo

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Registered: March 2004
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Thu 9 6, 2005 07:35

Dp's comments - The Battle of the Beams, Lorenz, Knickerbein & X/Y Gerat. Fascinating stuff and a great TV series back in the 70's - "The Secret War".

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And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear.
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

Viking

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Registered: January 2004
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Fri 10 6, 2005 15:42

thank you very much gents now I know

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