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Re: Radar directed searchlights
The Luftwaffe coupled gun-laying radar to searchlights for the first time in September 1940. By the end of the war, virtually all schwere Flak- und Scheinwerferbatterien operating around the big cities and industrial areas in the Reich were radar-directed. The three principal sets were the FuMG 63 "Mainz", FuMG 64 "Mannheim" and the FuMG 68 "Ansbach". You can read all about it in the following work as well as in the 5 heavily illustrated books on various aspects of the Flakartillerie by Werner Müller:
Westermann, Edward B. Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defenses, 1914-1945. Lawrence (KS): Univ. Press of Kansas, 2001. ISBN: 0-7006-1136-3. Hb. Dj. 394p. Illus. Tables. Abbreviations glossary. Source notes. Bibliography. Index.
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