• trollercoaster
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    1 month ago

    The Battle of the Beams is a highly interesting and often overlooked detail of WW2.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      My favorite part of this was Klein-Heidelberg, a German passive radar system that used the broadcasts from Britain’s Chain Home radar stations to precisely locate Allied bomber formations. The Allies knew about it but kept Chain Home operational because they wanted German fighters to come up after the bombers - and get shot down.