Blind bombing : how microwave radar brought the Allies to D-Day and victory in World War II / Norman Fine.
Fine, Norman M., author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2019
D810.R33 F56 2019
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Title Blind bombing : how microwave radar brought the Allies to D-Day and victory in World War II / Norman Fine.
Author Fine, Norman M., author.
ISBN 9781640122796 (electronic book)
1640122796 (electronic book)
9781640122208
1640122206
Published Lincoln, NE : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Call Number D810.R33 F56 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.54/12
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Prologue: scientists and warriors
Part 1. Science and politics
The death ray: 1930s
Europe in turmoil, America in denial: 1940
"A four-star general in civilian clothes": 1939-40
The Tizard Mission: 1940
MIT Radiation Lab, shanghaiing the physicists: 1940-41
Part 2. The U-boat
Airborne radar and the U-boats: 1935-41
From defense to offense: 1941-43
Part 3. The weather
The case for blind bombing: 1942-43
Relentlessly, despite the weather: 1943
Part 4. Setting the stage for D-Day
Getting to D-Day: 1943-44
Deep penetration bombing losses: 1943
Scarcely a German plane in the sky: June 6, 1944
Epilogue: Never a tail-end Charlie.

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