Blind bombing : how microwave radar brought the Allies to D-Day and victory in World War II /
"Blind Bombing" explores the influence of microwave radar on World War II and tells the stories of those who worked on the secret invention from the laboratories to combat. Without microwave radar, the outcome of D-Day would have been vastly different.
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Lincoln :
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: scientists and warriors
- Part 1. Science and politics
- The death ray: 1930s
- Europe in turmoil, America in denial: 1940
- "A four-star general in civilian clothes": 1939-40
- The Tizard Mission: 1940
- MIT Radiation Lab, shanghaiing the physicists: 1940-41
- Part 2. The U-boat
- Airborne radar and the U-boats: 1935-41
- From defense to offense: 1941-43
- Part 3. The weather
- The case for blind bombing: 1942-43
- Relentlessly, despite the weather: 1943
- Part 4. Setting the stage for D-Day
- Getting to D-Day: 1943-44
- Deep penetration bombing losses: 1943
- Scarcely a German plane in the sky: June 6, 1944
- Epilogue: Never a tail-end Charlie.