Blind Bombing

How Microwave Radar Brought the Allies to D-Day and Victory in World War II

Norman Fine (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2019
Potomac Books Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64012-220-8 (ISBN)

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Blind Bombing explores the influence of microwave radar on World War II and tells the stories of those who worked on the invention. Without microwave radar, the outcome of D-Day would have been vastly different

Silver Medal winner in the Independent Book Publishers Awards

Late in 1939 Nazi Germany was poised to overrun Europe and extend Adolf Hitler’s fascist control. At the same time, however, two British physicists invented the resonant cavity magnetron. About the size of a hockey puck, it unlocked the enormous potential of radar exclusively for the Allies.

Since the discovery of radar early in the twentieth century, development across most of the world had progressed only incrementally. Germany and Japan had radar as well, but in just three years, the Allies’ new radar, incorporating the top-secret cavity magnetron, turned the tide of war from doubtful to a known conclusion before the enemy even figured out how. The tactical difference between the enemy’s primitive radar and the Allies’ new radar was similar to that between a musket and a rifle. The cavity magnetron proved to be the single most influential new invention contributing to winning the war in Europe.

Norman Fine tells the relatively unknown story of radar’s transformation from a technical curiosity to a previously unimaginable offensive weapon. We meet scientists and warriors critical to the story of radar and its pressure-filled development and implementation. Blind Bombing brings to light two characters who played an integral role in the story as it unfolded: one, a brilliant and opinionated scientist, the other, an easygoing twenty-one-year-old caught up in the peacetime draft.

This unlikely pair and a handful of their cohorts pioneered a revolution in warfare. They formulated new offensive tactics by trying, failing, and persevering, ultimately overcoming the naysayers and obstructionists on their own side and finally the enemy.

For more information about Blind Bombing, visit millwoodhouse.com.

Norman Fine is a retired electronics engineer, founder of a high-tech company, editor and publisher of an annual engineering design guide series in the 1990s, and the author of four books.

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Preface
Prologue
Scientists and Warriors
Part I: Science and Politics
Chapter 1 The Death Ray
Chapter 2 1940: Europe in Turmoil; America in Denial
Chapter 3 Partnerships: Science, Government, and Alfred Loomis
Chapter 4 1940: The Tizard Mission
Chapter 5 1940–1941: The Radiation Lab
Part II: The U-Boat
Chapter 6 Airborne Radar and the U-Boats: Developing a Defense
Chapter 7 1941–1943: From Defense to Offense
Part III: The Weather
Chapter 8 1942–1943: The Case for Blind Bombing
Chapter 9 1943–1944: Relentlessly, Despite the Weather
Part IV: Setting the Stage for D-Day
Chapter 10 Getting to D-Day
Chapter 11 Deep Penetration Bombing: A New Problem
Chapter 12 June 6, 1944: Scarcely a German Plane in the Sky
Epilogue
Source Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	06.11.2019
Zusatzinfo	9 photographs, 1 illustration, index
Verlagsort	Dulles
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
ISBN-10	1-64012-220-6 / 1640122206
ISBN-13	978-1-64012-220-8 / 9781640122208
Zustand	Neuware