[Milsurplus] Milsurplus Digest, Vol 221, Issue 53

Dave Merrill r390a.urr at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 20:17:10 EDT 2022


I believe the R. V. Jones book is actually titled "The Wizard War : British
Scientific Intelligence, 1939-1945"

It is an excellent read.

Dave N9ZC


On Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 6:59 PM Brooke Clarke via Milsurplus <
milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Hi Mark:
>
> I have a list of Radar Warning Receiver references that are very close to
> this at:
> https://prc68.com/I/RWR.shtml#References
>
> The references on the China Lake Patents web page is more missile related:
> https://prc68.com/I/ChinaLakePatents.html#References
>
> --
> Have Fun,
>
> Brooke Clarkehttps://www.PRC68.com
> axioms:
> 1. The extent to which you can fix or improve something will be limited by how well you understand how it works.
> 2. Everybody, with no exceptions, holds false beliefs.
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> -------- Original Message --------
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> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 21:41:14 -0400
> From: Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com> <mark.k3msb at gmail.com>
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> Over the past few months I've read two superb books on British and German
> Electronic Warfare and Radar in WW II.
>
> "Instruments of Darkness - The History of Electronic Warfare 1939-1945" by
> Alfred Price
>
> This book goes into significant details of the British and German systems.
>
> "Instruments of Darkness" references another book....
>
> "Most Secret War - British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945" by R. V.
> Jones.
>
> Dr. Jones was the Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence in Britain
> during WW II.   This 550 page tome is absolutely fascinating.  While doing
> an excellent job of discussing the British and German systems, it also
> presents the continuous flow and dynamics of how the British and German
> systems evolved to counter each other as the war progressed.  It also
> provides a lot of ancillary information of why things were done the way
> they were done from a first hand perspective.   Lots of maps and diagrams
> too.....
>
> Both available from Amazon.
>
> 73 Mark K3MSB
>
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