"Some German bombers landed at UK bases, believing they were back in Germany."
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#2Interesting! You always hear about the battles won with guns and bombs, but very rarely do you get to learn about battles between engineers.
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#3The article actually says 'RAF bases', not 'UK bases', so I presume the error wasn't necessarily as large as the distance between Germany and the UK.
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#4Like! :-)
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#5The article actually says 'RAF bases', not 'UK bases', so I presume the error wasn't necessarily as large as the distance between Germany and the UK.
It mentions however that the system was used after the campaign has switched to night bombing, which was months after the evacuation from France. The error was at least as large as the channel.
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#6Like! :-)
Truly a leaf from the Art of War. Confound before Conflict.
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#7Interesting! You always hear about the battles won with guns and bombs, but very rarely do you get to learn about battles between engineers.
Interesting indeed. If you think all the new tech in WW2 (missile, radar, atom bomb, Enigma, u-boat), calling the WW2 "the first war of engineering" isn't far from the truth.
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#8Interesting! You always hear about the battles won with guns and bombs, but very rarely do you get to learn about battles between engineers.
Interesting indeed. If you think all the new tech in WW2 (missile, radar, atom bomb, Enigma, u-boat), calling the WW2 "the first war of engineering" isn't far from the truth.
It is a bit far from the truth. Kadesh is possibly the first war of engineering we have accounts of, in which the manevourability of chariots were decisive.
Actually, every nation that challenged the status quo of their times run a war of engineering.Avars and the stirrup, kinghts and the body armor, Turks and the cannon, etc, etc...
Re: "Some German bombers landed at UK bases, believing they were back in Germany."
#9Interesting! You always hear about the battles won with guns and bombs, but very rarely do you get to learn about battles between engineers.
Interesting indeed. If you think all the new tech in WW2 (missile, radar, atom bomb, Enigma, u-boat), calling the WW2 "the first war of engineering" isn't far from the truth.
U-boats were a major factor in WW1 - the United States probably wouldn't have entered the war if it hadn't been for German attacks on transatlantic shipping.
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#10I dimly recall from my youth in Cornwall that it was a particular problem if the aircraft ended up too far west - they would leave the South Wales coast, cross the Bristol Channel - confuse that with the English Channel, and then land, lost, at the first airbase they found in Cornwall -thinking they were at least in France.