The Forschungsamt (or Goering’s Research Bureau) was the reason I was hunting around for information , its name popped up now and then but there was very little information about it. This was Goering’s pet [more…]
A shorter update this time, primarily due to other activites taking precedence – not weather related over the past weeks, but the Easter holidays threw routines out of the window. The eldest came home and [more…]
One of the lesser known parts of German Signals Intelligence was the Radio Defence Corps of the Armed Forces. Their main function was to monitor clandestine radio transmissions within Germany and later German controlled areas. [more…]
In part two we learned about the highly successful second generation 737, now known as the “Classic”. We also touched on the emergence of a new competitor. In this part we’ll take a look at [more…]
Failure , such a negative word but there are degrees. The Germans’ biggest failure was to not find out about the Allies cracking their military Enigma machines as well as two types of teletype. They [more…]
The roots of the Internet are military, as everyone knows. One of the earliest projects of the military computer age, alongside automated discrimination of ICBM radar trajectories to separate them from harmless civilian traffic, tactical [more…]
In part one we covered the genesis of the 737 and its troubled early years where at times it seemed as if the 737 was hanging on by its fingernails in a tough market dominated [more…]
With spring just around the corner, allegedly, this winter project should be coming to a close, but so far there is little sign of that. The return of the eldest son from Uni meant decamping [more…]
The following is a description of the course of a typical American heavy bomber raid and , as in the case of the example of an RAF raid , represents tactics during the latter years [more…]
I think most of us here don’t get terribly excited at the thought of the Boeing 737. It’s quite mundane, unremarkable, pedestrian even. I suspect more than a few of us here have been herded [more…]
The following depicts the sequence of events in a night raid, showing how , in the latter years of the war , it could be identified by SIS, and advance warning given: 17:00 Lancaster units [more…]
How successful were the Germans with the Signals Intelligence during WW2 and even just before. We have grown used to the astounding success of Ultra and possibly associate success with breaking an almost unbreakable code [more…]
Western civilisation, and Britain in particular, can be credited with creating the World as we know it. The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime [more…]
Signals Intelligence consists of several areas Interception of signals ; they can be wireless , telephone lines or even public broadcasts. Deciding what the Signals are , diplomatic , military attache , Army , Air [more…]
Work on the layout has slowed a little with the recent weather disruptions affecting routines. The successful completion of the cyclists/ Sweeney run was also the closing of a chapter. As you can see Wiggins [more…]
I looked at some of these videos where they put another head over a bit of film and I thought; “that seems to wobble about a bit, I wonder how they do that because I [more…]
Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Defeat by Giles Milton Published by John Murray (Publishers) 2016 ISBN 978-1-444-79898-2 Giles Milton is one of those writers and historians with a wonderful story-telling [more…]
One of the things that most people know about WW2 is that Bletchley Park were successfully decrypting German signals , sometimes before the German recipient had the decoded version himself. But if we could do [more…]
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