ROYAL AIR FORCE: OPERATIONS BY THE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE UNITS, 1939-1945. - Annotated vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial taken over Auderville on the Cap de la Hague peninsula, France; the first of a series of reconnaissance photos which provided evidence that the Germans were employing early-warning radar. The ringed circular objects, at first thought to be cow bins, were examined by Dr R V Jones, the Assistant Director Air Intelligence (Science) at the Air Ministry, in January 1941. From this he conjectured that the circles may house 'Freya' aerial arrays, a fact confirmed by
ROYAL AIR FORCE: OPERATIONS BY THE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE UNITS, 1939-1945. - Annotated vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial taken over Auderville on the Cap de la Hague peninsula, France; the first of a series of reconnaissance photos which provided evidence that the Germans were employing early-warning radar. The ringed circular objects, at first thought to be cow bins, were examined by Dr R V Jones, the Assistant Director Air Intelligence (Science) at the Air Ministry, in January 1941. From this he conjectured that the circles may house 'Freya' aerial arrays, a fact confirmed by subsequent low-level sorties undertaken by No. 1 PRU. , Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment, Sqdn, 2752
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