1st Edition

Echoes of War The Story of H2S Radar

By Bernard Lovell Copyright 1991
312 Pages
by CRC Press

310 Pages
by CRC Press

310 Pages
by CRC Press

August 1939 was a time of great flux. The fear of impending war fueled by the aggression of Nazi Germany forced many changes. Young people pursuing academic research were plunged into an entirely different kind of research and development. For Bernard Lovell, the war meant involvement in one of the most vital research projects of the war-radar. Echoes of War: The Story of H2S Radar presents a... Read more
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.

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Lovell, Bernard