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Echoes of war: The story of H2S radar.
By Bernard Lovell 1991
ISBN 0-85274-317-3
COPYRIGHT, 1991, BY Bernard Lovell
Contents
Preface vii
Author's Note x
Chronology of Radar Developments xi
1 August 1939 1
2 Scone Airport 10
3 St Athan 20
4 Worth Matravers 27
5 Leeson House 45
6 AIS—the First Centimetre AI (AI Mark VII/Mark
VIII) 55
7 Lock—Follow AI (AIF/AISF/Mark IX AI) 69
8 H2S—the Background 85
9 The Birth of H2S—1 November 1941 91
10 Halifax V9977 99
11 Life in Swanage 1940—42 (by Joyce Lovell)
110
12 The Last Days in Swanage and the Food Queues of Great
Malvern 119
13 The Crash of the Halifax Bomber 126
14 The Meeting with the Prime Minister 132
15 Bennett and Renwick 137
16 Autumn 1942 142
17 January–February 1943 151
18 Centimetre ASV and the U-Boats 155
19 The Impact of the German Naxos on Centimetre
ASV 165
20 H2S on Tank Landing Craft 171
21 The Summer of 1943—Destruction of Hamburg
173
22 H2S on 3 Centimetres (X-band)—the Attacks on Berlin and
Leipzig 180
23 H2S and the American 8th Bomber Command 193
24 The Problems with H2S in Bomber Command 197
25 Fishpond 206
26 Conflict with Bomber Command 211
27 The New Versions of H2S 217
28 July 1944 229
29 Naxos and H2S 233
30 D-Day, H2S and the Army 238 '
31 The U-Boat Schnorkel 246
32 The Last Months of the War and the Post-war
Phase 251
33 Envoi—1991 261
Appendix 1: Note on Minelaying by H2S 263
Appendix 2: Glossary and Abbreviations 265
Appendix 3: Principal Staff and Command Appointments
273
Appendix 4: Summary of H2S Systems 275
Index 277
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Bernard Lovell - Astronomer
by Chance - 1991
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2004
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