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Old 26th October 2010, 18:57
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Re: English-French translation, request for assistance

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Originally Posted by Recceswind View Post
Radio contact: I have several reports from 1940 with information about attacks of the French fighters - attacks which were coordinated from the ground by the observer posts ("ground stations"). During them pilots were receiving information about heading, altitude and number of German planes.
I wonder with what. We had only one radar in use and it worked like photoelectric cells - it could tell that "something" had crossed the beam, approximatively where, but not what, how many and how high. It was so trustworthy and useful that it was abandonned soon after May 10 when it became saturated by too high a number of aircraft flying past the beam.
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