CHILL !
It looks like a
COMBINED effort now.
There has been some interesting info
declassified of late :
I was looking for the documentary that I watched but one would have to go to PBS.
Here is a
LINK>>>>> to some info in print
and a quote from that page paraphrased for brevity :
After the fall of France, Great Britain stood alone under air assault by Germany’s Luftwaffe bombers and suffered from German U-boat attacks on its sea supply lines. British military scientists had been developing technologies such as jet engines, anti-submarine devices, explosives and radar, but lacked the resources to continue. That’s when Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered his scientists to
offer their research secrets to the United States in hopes of also receiving the benefits of U.S. research.
. . . .
One of the research goodies offered by the British included a radio tube called the cavity magnetron. It was exactly what Loomis and his research group had been looking for: a compact microwave device capable of enabling more accurate radar and the use of smaller antennas that could even be carried by aircraft.
. . . led to the founding of the Radiation Lab, known as the “Rad Lab,” at MIT.
. . . (
in the US)
The
Rad Lab’s crucial wartime work led to radar technologies that guided Allied bombers and paratroopers to their targets, enabled Allied ships to blindly track and fire upon enemy ships at night, and provided automatic targeting systems for clusters of antiaircraft guns to efficiently shoot down both Axis aircraft and German V-1 rockets. Such radar may not have won the war all on its own, but it undoubtedly saved lives on the Allied side and enabled Allied forces to outfight their Axis counterparts in Europe and in the Pacific.
For example, an increasingly desperate Germany launched its V-1 rocket
blitz against London in 1944 that involved almost 7,500 of the so-called “buzz bombs.” In response, the Rad Lab
rushed its radar-controlled antiaircraft gun targeting
system over to England and trained the antiaircraft gun crews in its usage.
The British commander of the Antiaircraft Command described the solution as follows: “It seemed to us that the obvious answer to the robot target of the flying bomb . . . was a robot defense.”
. . .
Once the automated guns moved to the coastlines, they shot down 1,286 V-1 rockets between July 17 and August 31. That was the equivalent of 34 percent of all V-1 rockets launched against Great Britain during that period. It was quite an accomplishment considering that the V-1 rockets were fairly small compared with aircraft and typically flew at 380 miles per hour at low altitudes
Pilsner
but your mainland suffered no such blitzkrieg. Look up the definition and the facts will be obvious. Also, we didn't help the Russians win. We took back the most important parts of what the axis powers stole (they did so with blitzkrieg) and stopped your country from being taken over.. Please don't belittle that point in the same way Sosa has belittled your country. Getting into a pissing match about WWII is not an argument you can win and nor should you try. Be grateful.
