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German Coastal Radar Stations
Then and Now
Winston Ramsey, Jean Paul Pallud
- 192 pages
- English
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German Coastal Radar Stations
Then and Now
Winston Ramsey, Jean Paul Pallud
About This Book
When German forces occupied the coastline of the English Channel in 1940, one of the measures undertaken to give early warning of attacks from the sea or air was to set up a line of radar stations. Although this invisible screen was a passive defense, it was a serious 'barrier' that had to be neutralized for the Allied invasion to be launched in 1944. Planners at RAF Medmenham had established there the Central Interpretation Unit (CIU) to examine the results of aerial photography over the Continent and the unit prepared plans of every enemy radar site ready for briefing pilots undertaking pre-invasion attacks. Those once-secret plans are now reproduced in this book, alongside the wartime photography, with comparison views of the sites today. Where farmland has now reclaimed the sites little remains to be seen, but on others there are still significant traces of a once-powerful weapon in the German armory. To set the scene, Professor R. V. Jones, the Assistant Director of Intelligence at the Air Ministry, recounts the events leading up to the proposal to mount a raid on the radar site at Bruneval. The site had what became known as a 'WĂŒrzburg' and the idea was to dismantle and remove the critical parts of the unit to bring then back to Britain and, hopefully, at the same time capture the operators for interrogation.
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YPRES/VOORMEZEELE
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DUNKIRK/FORT DES DUNES
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GRAVELINES/LE CLIPON
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Credits
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Note
- Contents
- Introduction â BRUCE ROBERTSON
- The Bruneval Raidâ ALFRED PRICE
- Operations Against Coastal Radar Stations â R. V. JONES
- Ypres/Voormezele (Target No. 1)
- Dunkirk/Fort des Dunes (Target No. 2)
- Gravelines/Le Clipon (Target No. 3)
- Gravelines/Petit-Fort-Philippe (Target No. 4)
- Cap Blanc-Nez (Target No. 5)
- Cap Blanc-Nez/St Pol (Target No. 6)
- Cap Gris-Nez (Target No. 7)
- Cap Gris-Nez/Pointe du Riden (Target No. 8)
- Cap Gris-Nez/Bellevue (Target No. 9)
- Cap Gris-Nez/Wattermel St George (Target No. 10)
- Cap Gris-Nez/Onglevert (Target No. 11)
- Boulogne/Boursin (Target No. 12)
- Boulogne/Monument (Target No. 13)
- Boulogne/Mont Lambert (Target No. 14)
- Boulogne/Cap dâAlprech (Target No. 15A)
- Boulogne/Cap dâAlprech (Target No. 15B)
- Boulogne/Hardelot (Target No. 16)
- Mont Violette (Target No. 17)
- NeufchĂątel/Mont St Frieux (Target No. 18)
- Le Touquet/Plage Ste CĂ©cile (Target No. 19)
- Fruges/Prédefin (Target No. 20)
- Aubigny/Frévillers (Target No. 21)
- Berck-sur-Mer (Target No. 22)
- Cayeux/Nouveau Brighton (Target No. 23)
- Amiens/Montrelet (Target No. 24)
- Abbeville/Vaudricourt (Target No. 25)
- Le Tréport/Mont Huon (Target No. 26)
- 101 Dieppe/Caude-CĂŽte (Target No. 27)
- St Valéry-en-Caux/Manneville-Ús-Plains (Target No. 28)
- St Valéry-en-Caux/St Martin-aux-Buneaux (Target No. 29)
- FĂ©camp/Chapelle de la Vierge (Target No. 30)
- Cap dâAntifer/SĂ©maphore (Target No. 31)
- Cap dâAntifer (Target No. 32)
- Yvetot/Ăpinay-sur-Duclair (Target No. 33)
- NeufchĂątel/Sully (Target No. 34)
- Le Havre/Cap de la HĂšve (Target No. 35)
- Lisieux/Le Theil-Nolent (Target No. 36)
- Bernay/La ChaliĂšre (Target No. 37)
- Houlgate/SĂ©maphore (Target No. 38)
- Caen/Douvres-la-DĂ©livrande (Target No. 39)
- Arromanches (Target No. 40)
- Pointe et Raz de la Percée (Target No. 41)
- St LĂŽ/Bourg dâEnfer (Target No. 42)
- Vire/Le Parc (Target No. 43)
- Barfleur/Le Vicel (Target No. 44)
- Cherbourg/Cap LĂ©vy (Target No. 45)
- Cherbourg/Fermanville (La Brasserie) (Target No. 46)
- Omonville la Rogue/Asselins (Target No. 47)
- Cap de la Hague/Auderville (Target No. 48)
- Cap de la Hague/Jobourg (Target No. 49)
- Cap de Carteret/SĂ©maphore (Target No. 50)
- Guernsey/Fort George (Target No. 51)
- Guernsey/Pleinemont (Target No. 52)
- Jersey/Rouge Nez (Target No. 53)
- St Malo/Pointe du Grouin (Target No. 54)
- Cap Fréhel/Sémaphore (Target No. 55)
- Moncontour/Bel-Air (Target No. 56)
- Loudéac/La Récompense (Target No. 57)
- Monterfil/Les Ăpinais (Target No. 58)
- Vitré/La Haye (Target No. 59)
- Oisseau/MarĂȘtre (Target No. 60)
- Falaise/Ri (Target No. 61)
- Dieppe/Ste Marguerite (Target No. 62)
- St Valéry-en-Caux/St Léger (Target No. 63)
- Bayeux/Le Mesnil (Target No. 64)
- Calais/Sangatte (Target No. 65)
- Postscript