[Larry Hickey]

SES & Horst,

Thanx for your helpful comments. The French article was particularly helpful, especially in light of the info from Larry de Zeng. I'm thinking that this all adds up to a very important historical event, probably the first major successful German radar-guided interception of the war, and thus in the history of radar in general. This is something that I never suspected when I started researching this combat.

Does anyone have any photos of this early radar site, or one like it, to see what the equipment looked like?

Now if we can only find some photos of the wrecked Fairey Battles from this incident, or other photos of 150 SQ a/c from 09.39, so that I can do a profile of one of the British a/c involved. Peter Cornwell has suggested the general appearance of this a/c, but notes that this info is still highly speculative: "Lack of consistency in the application of markings on Battles of the period make it dangerous to speculate but probably no fin flash & serial repeated on the rudder etc. Also possibly all black undersurfaces with large white serials on each wing."

Thanx again for the help!!

Regards,

Larry Hickey
EoE Project Coordinator