Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14569838458)

Identifier: bellvol24telephonemag00amerrich (find matches)

Title: Bell telephone magazine

Year: 1922 (1920s)

Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept

Subjects: Telephone

Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)

Contributing Library: Prelinger Library

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in-tensity. The first raids were directedat RAF bases, but by September themass raids on London had begun.Englands defensive radar chain wasto have its first great test. Strangely,it seemed to the British, the Germansattached no importance to the sta-tions, although the great masts whichmarked each radar site afforded anunmistakable target. Despite a critical shortage offighter planes and pilots, the Britishwere able to spot each incoming raid in time to throw fighters against it.The necessity for constant airbornepatrols of fighters was removed andthe few to whom so many owed somuch were thrown into battle econ-omically and with maximum effect.Germany suffered her first great de-feat of World War IL The battered Luftwaffe retired be-hind the Siegfried Line to lick itswounds, while Allied science and in-dustry, urged on by the military, em-barked on an ever-expanding programof radar production which was des-tined, more than any other materialfactor, to end the Axis dream ofconquest. r

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Model O radars, with cradle-like antennas pointing seaward, stand watch on Okinawa

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1922

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