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Radar at Sea Derek Howse

Radar at Sea By Derek Howse

Radar at Sea by Derek Howse


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Summary

Addressed to the general reader, it tells not only the technical story in simple terms, but also of the operational use of shipborne radar at sea - for warning, for fire control, for fighter direction, for navigation, in all theatres of war - and particularly about the people who designed and fitted the equipment, and those who used it at sea.

Radar at Sea Summary

Radar at Sea: The Royal Navy in World War 2 by Derek Howse

This book tells in non-technical language how the British Navy contributed to the development of naval radar in World War 2. Addressed to the general reader, it tells not only the technical story in simple terms, but also of the operational use of shipborne radar at sea - for warning, for fire control, for fighter direction, for navigation, in all theatres of war - and particularly about the people who designed and fitted the equipment, and those who used it at sea.

Table of Contents

Setting the scene; 1935-39: the beginnings of the navy's radar; 1939-40: the phoney war - but not at sea; 1940: Norway and the fall of France; 1941: Matapan and the sinking of the Bismarck; 1941: the battle of the Atlantic and Pearl Harbor; 1942: Malta convoys, and the invasion of North Africa; 1943: Sicily, Salerno and the sinking of the Scharnhorst; 1944: Normandy, before and after; 1945: the end of the war; wartime projects postwar; radar in the wartime navy - a summing-up. Epilogue: 40 years on - Admiral Sir Jeremy Black.

Additional information

NPB9780333584491
9780333584491
033358449X
Radar at Sea: The Royal Navy in World War 2 by Derek Howse
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
1993-02-08
383
N/A
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