Echoes of War: The Story of H2s Radar

ISBN-13: 9780852743171 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 310 str.

Sir Bernard Lovell; Sir Ber Lovell

Opis

An autobiographical account of the author's work on the development of radar systems during World War II. The book focuses on his contributions to the development of a blind bombing device known as H2S and its conversion to assist Coastal Command in the detection of enemy submarines.

Spis treści

August 1939. Scone airport. St Athan.. Worth Matravers. Leeson House. AIS - the first centimetre AI (AI Mk VII/Mk VIII). Lock-follow AI (AIF/AISF/Mk IX AI). H^O2S - the background. The birth of H^O 2S - November 1st 1941. Halifax V9977. Life in Swanage 1940-42 (by Joyce Lovell). The last days in Swanage and the food queues of Great Malvern. The crash of the Halifax bomber. The meeting with the Prime Minister. Bennett and Renwick. Autumn 1942. January-February 1943. Centimetre ASV and the U-boats. The impact of the German NAXOS on centimetre ASV. H^O2S on Tank landing craft. The summer of 1943, destruction of Hamburg. H^O2 S on 3 centimetres (X-band) - the attacks on Berlin and Leipzig. H2S and the American 8th Bomber Command. The problems with H^O2 S in Bomber Command. Fishpond. Conflict with Bomber Command. The new versions of H^O2 S. July 1944. Naxos and H^O2S. D-Day. H^O2S and the Army. The U-boat Schnorkel. The last months of the war. Envoi -1991.

O autorze

Lovell, Bernard