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HIGH FREQUENCY AS A WEAPON
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National Archives and Records Administration HIGH FREQUENCY AS A WEAPON Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. (09/26/1947 - ) ARC Identifier 64890 / Local Identifier 342-USAF-13277. Summary: Coverage of high-frequency radio waves for radar jamming used by German military in WW II to interfere with bombing accuracy and to blind British radar when the cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau escaped from the harbor of Brest and ran the English Channel to the North Sea. Reel 1: 1) German colonel and junior officer talking in colonel's office. 2) INT scenes of coastal warning net stations as operators track aircraft and telephone information to Air Plotting Center. 3) Scenes of Air Plotting Center showing soldiers making notes on board indicating course and strength of attacking aircraft. 710') Total footage in reel. Reel 2: 1) Scenes in Air Plotting Center of lights flashing on wall map of north eastern Europe. 2) ALS FV of B-17's in box formation. 3) AV of six B-17's (footage probably taken from newsreel coverage of US Goodwill flight to South America in 1938). 4) GSAP footage of B-17E being hit and falling. 5) MS of burning wreckage on ground. 6) German officers in staff mee…
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