By R. V. Jones
This article is Jones's account of his half in British medical Intelligence among 1939 and 1949. It used to be his accountability to count on German functions of technology to war, in order that their new guns will be countered earlier than they have been used. a lot of his paintings needed to do with radio navigation, as within the conflict of the Beams, with radar, as within the Allied Bomber Offensive and within the arrangements for D-Day and within the struggle at sea. He used to be additionally in command of intelligence opposed to the V-1 (flying bomb) and the V-2 (rocket) retaliation guns and, even if the Germans have been a ways in the back of from good fortune, opposed to their nuclear advancements.
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I used to be instantly to have an illustration of this final caliber, for as I requested him approximately Wotan, he responded, ‘Yes, he used to be Head of the German Gods. … Wait a second. … He had just one eye’. after which, shouting triumphantly into the phone, ‘ONE EYE—ONE BEAM! are you able to give some thought to a procedure that may use just one beam? ’ I answered that i may, for in precept it is easy to have the bomber fly alongside a beam pointing over the objective, and feature whatever like a radar station along the beam transmitter in order that the space of the bomber can be continually measured from the start line of the beam. A controller there may perhaps understand either the gap of the bomber from its goal and its pace, from which he may well determine the right kind fast at which the plane may still unencumber its bombs to hit the objective. As for the radar approach hired, it may be whatever like our personal, during which pulses have been despatched out to the bomber and mirrored again to base; the program may be enhanced by means of having a receiver within the bomber which might enlarge the sign sooner than re-transmission to base, giving a favorable id of the bomber quite as in our personal process of I. F. F. (Identification buddy or Foe). then again the range-finding method will possibly not use pulses yet a continuing wave, comparable to have been pointed out within the Oslo document, and which I had additionally discovered released in a Russian technical magazine. In view of the Oslo facts, i used to be prone to seem for whatever like a Knickebein beam with the continual wave technique variety size. Norman enthusiastically applauded this advice, and jointly we chased each attainable clue. a number of days later we encountered one other Nordic deity, whilst on fifth July we learnt that German opponents have been capable of intercept a few of our plane as a result of the wonderful ‘Freya-Meldung’ (‘Freya Reporting’); and on 14th July we learnt that there has been anything referred to as a ‘Freya Gerät’ (‘Freya Apparatus’). So Freya linked to air defence and to contain particular goods of kit. I knew that Freya was once the Nordic Venus: and because Wotan’s one eye had looked as if it would provide us a clue to a brand new bombing approach, so I puzzled even if there can be anything approximately Freya that will offer a clue in air defence. I went to Foyle’s book shop and purchased a ebook on Norse mythology, and that i defined the outcome which I wrote on seventeenth July less than the name ‘The Edda Revived’: really the Decknammen division of the Luftwaffe may possibly not often have selected a extra fruitful goddess, yet few of her attributes have any attainable relation with the current challenge. She did, besides the fact that, have as her so much prized ownership a necklace, Brisinga-men, to acquire which she now not purely sacrificed, yet massacred, her honour. The necklace is necessary since it was once guarded through Heimdall, the watchman of the gods, who may well see 100 miles through day and evening. there's a attainable organization of rules with a coastal chain and a detecting process with more than a few 100 miles. furthermore, in Germany, the Brocken is mentioned because the certain dwelling house of Freya, and the secret of the tower at the Brocken is celebrated.