Subject: How did the Brits do it?
From: "Emmanuel Gustin"
Date: 3/10/04 4:15 PM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Interesting. Do you know where the German Gee transmitters were located?
Were
there also three of them?

AFAIK they simply tuned their equipment to the British GEE
transmitters! The basic Gee (unlike Gee-H) was not a transponder
system, so they only needed the receiver to measure the phase
shifts, and then Gee worked for the Luftwaffe as well as the RAF.

The Allies did something similar with a German (naval) navigation
system, which turned out to be so efficient that it survived the war
a long time. Unlike Gee -- Wattson-Watt made an effort to have
Gee adopted by airlines, but the American airlines were having
none of it; it was too expensive and complicated to operate.

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Emmanuel Gustin
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We didn't fly Gee until well after D-Day. I remember that we used three
transmitters. As I remember it there was one in southern France, another in
Denmark, Don't remember where the third one was. Do you know?


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