Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demonstration. In The Bronx, while an audience watched a lie detector pick the criminal in a mock theft, a thief stole three coats and two hats...
Bill Eddy read lips to pass his physical examination at Annapolis, got the highest I.Q. rating ever recorded there. He served ten years as a submarine commander before the Navy discovered in 1934 how deaf he was. To hide his deafness, he had invented a submarine detector that put sound on a dial where he could see it; now it is standard Navy equipment...
With the German radio-detector station near Le Havre brilliantly eliminated (see p. 24), R.A.F. flyers reconnoitered and raided German sea bases again & again, in good weather and filthy. They found, photographed and bombed the Gneisenau at Kiel, the Scharnhorst at Wilhelmshaven...
This was a lightning raid on the German radio-detector station at Bruneval, twelve miles northeast of Le Havre on the French coast. It is well known that the British have an effective short-wave device for locating planes at night or in clouds. Less well known is the fact that the Germans have a locator equally effective. The German device worked perfectly on the U.S. Catalina patrol bomber which spotted the Bismarck last May: the bomber had been followed through the clouds by radio detection from the German battleship, and the instant the plane appeared it got such...
...Force end of this complex operation was handled by Wing Commander Percy Charles Pickard. who had a pilot's part in the British film Target for Tonight. No doubt the Germans would build another detector station. But, Airman Pickard and his Army and Navy colleagues, in faultless timing, perfect coordination and complete success of their mission, had fought a fine war in miniature...