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After three hours on Phil Murray's deep-piled burgundy carpet, the union colonels hurried back to their strikes and plans to strike, which will reach a crisis next week...
...Navy, temporarily thrown off its "magic carpet" schedule by the need for repairs, knew that more storms could be expected in the next three months. Thousands of waiting G.I.s might fume, but there was nothing the Navy could do about the raging...
Tuba was not much help to U.S. day bombers, whose tight formations, necessary for protection against day fighters, made them extremely vulnerable to radar-pointed ground guns deep in Germany. So U.S. bombers carried "Carpet"-small transmitters sending out continuous waves to confuse the Wurzburgs. Carpet cut U.S. daylight bomber losses in half...
...raid on Europe became a complex business. Decoy planes dropped streamers of Window, filling the scopes of the Nazis' early-warning radars with swarms of imaginary bombers. From the cliffs of England, Tuba boomed its blasts, adding to the confusion. As the column of bombers swept toward Germany, Carpet cheeped from every plane, dazzling the Wurzburgs, while more puffs of glittering Window covered the sky with phantoms...
...Germans managed to devise some counter-jamming measures, but a combination of "Carpet" and "Window" jamming was never able to answer. So effective was the Allies' jamming system--it reduced German anti-aircraft efficiency by 75 percent--that by the end of the war almost 90 percent of Germany's high-frequency radio experts, some 7,000 men, were diverted from other urgent work to the single job of finding a way to prevent jamming of German radar...