Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increased my education with your June 7 footnote: "Dropped from a highflying plane, the strips of foil, called 'windows,' reflected radar waves, giving the false impression to radar operators that large formations were aloft...
...thought . . . that those strips of foil were called "window" (singular), and that we dropped them . . .to get the enemy's damned radar-controlled searchlights and guns off our actually large formations. . .It was kind of comforting to hide behind a "window" screen-with the big accurate flak laying on the tin foil below and behind us, rather than on the steel foil armor plate we were sitting...
...Window, not windows, is correct; and it was used, as Lieut. Colonel Smith thought, to draw attention from actual formations, as well as to create a false impression that larger formations were aloft. Each two-ounce package of "dehydrated bomber" scattered over Germany looked to radar like three Flying Fortresses...
...machines ran like clockwork, man in the Arctic would still be inefficient. A rifle will fire, but it takes a man to aim it and press the trigger-and a man wearing four layers of mittens has no trigger finger. Neither can he work small knobs on radio or radar sets...
...Dropped from a high-flying plane, the strips of foil, called "windows," reflected radar waves, giving the false impression to radar operators that large formations were aloft...