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RADAR - A Wartime Miracle
by Colin Latham and Anne Stobbs, 1996

Copyright by Colin Latham and Anne Stobbs, 1996

First published in the United Kingdom in 1996
by Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, an imprint of Sutton Publishing Limited Phoenix Mill - Far Thrupp . Stroud . Gloucestershire
Reprinted 1996 and 1997
Paperback edition first published 1997
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN U—7509—1114—X (hardback) ISBN 0—7509—1643—5 (paperback)

Contents
Foreword by Sir Edward Fennessy    ix
Preface by Colin Latham and Anne Stobbs    xi

Introduction: Radar and the RAF by Colin Latham    xv

Chapter One: The Zeppelin Spying Mission, 1939    1
Len Dobson    1
Background    3
Sir Edward Fennessy    6

Chapter Two: Chain, Home (CH)    9
The CH Calculator    21
Alan Sinclair    23
Stan Sheppard    23
Eric Dyson    24
Filter Rooms    24
Avis Parsons    25
Bobbie Martin    29
Anne Kaye    30
Joan Mulcaster    34
Roy Smith    35
Geoffrey Coucke    35
Johnnie Johnson    37
Ray Barker    37
Bobbie Baron    39
Knowler Edmonds    40
Bill Badcock    42
Freddie Smith    43
CH Against the V2    45
Valerie Sullivan    46
Gwen Reading    47

Chapter Three: Chain, Home, Low and Extra Low (CHL and CHEL)    48
George Capon    54
E.J.M. Jefferies    56
Molly Kerridge    58

Chapter Four: Ground-Controlled Interception (GCI)    60 GCI and the Biggin Hill
Experiment:    Sir Arthur McDonald    69
GCI on the Ground:    Pat Sparks    71
GCI in the Air:    John Cunningham    74

Chapter Five: Calibration of Radar Stations    78
C.D. Speake    78
K.S. Platt    81
Valerie Sullivan    81
J.R. Atkinson    82
Chapter Six: Radionavigational Aids    85
Gee (7000 or 7K)    85
Jeremy Howard-Williams    94
Thomas R. Dolezal    94
Oboe and Gee-H    95
Oboe    97
Keith Somerville    100
Frank Metcalfe    104
Nigel Ellis-Robinson    106
Gee-H    107
E.B. Sismore    109 Loran (700) and
other Navaids    109

Chapter Seven: Radar and Navaids Abroad    1 12

Part 1 : The Enemy's Radar — Measures and Countermeasures    1 12
Measures: C.W.H. Cox    112
Countermeasures    119
Roy Smith    119
Part 2: The Middle East and Far East    121
Dick Field    121
Mick Miller    126
Robert Hyde and Arthur Childs    127
Shaw Taylor    1 30
Alec Farmer    134
Part 3: Into Europe    137
Ron Colledge    137
E.H. Hitchcock    141
Gerald N.S. Taylor    147
Peter Harrild    155
Keith Benson    161
Alf Cassidy    164
Tom Hatcher    169
Bill Evans    172
Ray Barker    174
Denys Clutterbuck    176
Roy Smith    178
Olive Carlisle    179
Robert Hyde and Arthur Childs    181

Chapter Eight: Recruitment and Training    187
Nancy Paterson    188
Eric Hendy    189
H.C. Horwood    189
George Danielson    190
David McClelland    191
Arthus Rous    193
Dr John H. Bryant    193

Chapter Nine: As We Were    198
Anne Stobbs    198
Fred Moore    1 99
Ernie Johnson    200
Joe Pratt    201
Pat Evans    202
Con Nottridge    202
Ken Humphries    203
Colin Latham    204
Gerry Funston    206
Bob Clifford    208
Alfred Evans    211
Bawdsey — Where It All Began:    D. Rothery    213
Olive Carlisle    214
Colin Latham    214
Sidney Jefferson    215
Sir Edward Fennessy    216
A Note About Bawdsey Today    217

Epilogue: How Radar Has Matured Since the War    218

Appendix: The Choice of Wavelength for Radar    220

Map of the Home Chain, 1945    223

Glossary    227
Bibliography    235
Index    237

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