Telefunken, 10, 39, 42–3, 44–5, 252
Telemobiloscope, 9–10, 37
television: BBC, 32, 301; German, 42, 45
Tewes, Fusilier, 270, 285–6, 354
Thailand, Japanese invasion of, 139
This Happy Breed (Noel Coward film, 1944), 318
Thomas, Private David, 291–3
Thruxton airfield, 3, 176, 182, 222, 226, 227–30
Tilshead camp, Salisbury Plain, 167, 169–74, 182, 190, 196–7, 209–10, 225–6
Timothy, Lieutenant John, 101–2, 180, 204–5, 355–6; Bruneval raid and, 249, 258, 266, 274; MC awards, 347, 349, 351, 355; as technical consultant for School for Secrets, 319–20
Tirpitz, Admiral von, 9–10
Tirpitz battleship, 342
Tizard, Sir Henry, 12–13, 14, 25, 30, 357; Biggin Hill exercises (1936–7), 29–30; Cabinet Room meeting (21 June 1940), 115, 116; Committee for the Scientific Survey of air defence, 14, 16–19, 21; mission to Canada and USA, 80–1; rivalry with Lindemann, 113; ‘Tizzy Angle’ and, 29–30
Tooze, Cyril, 309
Torch, Operation, 345
HMS Tormentor (training base at Hamble), 177
training, parachute: Central Landing School at Manchester Ringway, 57–9, 62–5, 98, 99–100, 102–4, 105, 167–9, 175, 188–90; expansion of at Ringway (from May 1941), 99–100; fatalities during, 65, 94; landing techniques, 52, 100, 105; methods of jumping from plane, 63–5; Newnham revolutionises process of, 100; physical fitness, 102, 104, 105; use of Whitley bomber for, 63, 64, 65–6, 168, 189
HMS Triumph (submarine), 95, 97
Turing, Alan, 113
Tuve, Merle, 10
U-boats, 83, 87, 140–1, 157
United States: entry into war (December 1941), 138–9, 141; Mountbatten’s lecture tour (1941), 91; news of Bruneval and, 317; paratroopers, 348, 349, 350; radar development, 81, 336; Thousand Bomber Raids and, 332–3; Tizard mission to, 80–1; use of ‘Chaff’ (‘Window’), 336; Watson-Watt in, 359
Ustinov, Peter, 318–20
Vaagsö raid (December 1941), 144–6
Vennier, Paul and Madame, 161–2, 294
Vernon, Dennis, 191–2, 194, 246, 247, 263, 340; attached to Hardy raiding party, 205; dismantling of Würzburg and, 252–4, 261–2, 321; photographing of Würzburg, 248, 250, 251, 253
Versailles Treaty (1919), 7
HMS Victory at Portsmouth, 224–5
V-weapons, 129, 337
Warrenpoint ambush (August 1979), 356
Watson-Watt, Robert, 9, 10, 14–15, 16–22, 28–9, 39, 40, 43, 357; Bawdsey trials (September 1936), 25; Cabinet Room meeting (21 June 1940), 115, 116; on cavity magnetron, 79–80; Chain Home system and, 27; death ray gun research, 15–16; development of airborne radar and, 69; ‘holiday’ in Germany (1937), 35–7, 46, 111; links with industry and universities, 77; move to Worth Matravers and, 69; moves to Air Ministry, 32; opposition to jamming, 330, 331, 333; post-war life, 359; radar research’s move to Dundee/Perth and, 34, 68; resides at Bawdsey Manor, 24; rivalry with Lindemann, 113; two-way dialogue with RAF, 41
wavelengths, radar: airborne radar, 32, 76, 335; of Chain Home system, 73; differences in German systems, 119; in early research, 21, 38, 39, 40, 41; Freya early warning system, 44, 45, 123, 333; microwaves, 77–81, 82–3; Oslo Report and, 110, 124; Watson-Watt on, 17–18; Würzburg A system, 44, 45, 124, 134, 323, 330, 331
Wavell, Major General Archibald, 50–1
Wavell, Claude, 130–1, 132, 133, 134, 327
Weedon in Northamptonshire, 8–9, 34
Wehrmacht (German army): 294th Division, 354; 336th Infantry Division, 215, 289–90, 353–4; 685th Infantry Regiment., 215, 218, 290; 685th Infantry Regiment, 353–4; Blitzkrieg concept and, 51, 55, 70; Eastern Front, 352–5; interrogation of Bruneval prisoners, 293–4; invasion of Soviet Union, 139–40, 352; investigation into Bruneval raid, 290, 297–8; offensive in the west (May 1940), 54–5, 70; Panzer troops, 289; Sixth Army, 353; troops defending Bruneval, 215–21, 233, 234, 236, 240, 248, 263–4, 293
Wenzel, Gerhard, 213
Western Electric, AT&T, 10, 32
Whitley bomber, Armstrong Whitworth: Bruneval mission, 175, 176, 183, 202, 205–6, 229–31, 234–5, 236–7, 241, 249, 340; C-47 Dakota’s superiority to, 345; conditions inside of, 61, 64, 65–6, 230, 235; hole cut in floor of, 61, 64, 65–6, 176, 235, 236–7, 345; Operation Colossus and, 94, 95, 97; selected to carry parachutists, 61, 63; St Nazaire raid, 343; use of for training, 63, 64, 65–6, 168, 189; ‘Whitley kiss’, 64, 65–6, 237
Wilhelmshaven naval base, 110; RAF raid on (December 1939), 46–7, 114
Wilkins, Arnold, 16, 17, 18–19, 20, 34
Willoughby, Private John, 291–3
Wimperis, Henry, 14, 15–16
‘Window’ jamming system (aluminium strips), 331–2, 333, 334–7
Winterbotham, Frederick, 109, 113
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), 71, 120, 129; packing of parachutes by, 168; radar operation and, 71, 320
Worth Matravers site (Dorset), 69–70, 81–2; microwave radar and, 79–80, 82–3; vulnerability of, 70, 327–8
Würzburg A system: British understanding of, 322–3, 325–6, 329, 330–1, 337–8; design and operation of, 44, 45, 46, 124–5, 220, 329, 330–1; ‘Giant Würzburgs’, 135–6, 322, 329; interrogation of Heller and, 323–6; introduction of, 44–5; R.V. Jones and, 124–5, 131–2, 134, 135, 136–7, 321–3, 325–6; photographic reconnaissance of, 130–4, 136, 322, 327; wavelength of, 44, 45, 124, 134, 323, 330, 331; ‘Window’ system used against, 334–7; work on jamming of, 323, 330–1, 333–7
Y-Gerät radio beams, 110–11, 118
Young, Lieutenant Peter, 203–4, 244, 247, 258, 261, 270, 276, 308–9, 339–40
Zeebrugge raid (1918), 87
Zeppelin airship, LZ 130, 73
Zuckerman, Professor Solly, 143–4
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In the early stages of its development and use, the British did not use the word ‘radar’ but referred to Radio Direction Finding or RDF. The Americans used the word radar, an acronym of RAdio Detection And Ranging. This became the standard term used in Britain from about the summer of 1943. I shall use the word radar throughout this book for simplicity and clarity.
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