England Was Almost Destroyed By Radio Waves
In 1940, Britain had retreated back to their island fortress after being throttled in mainland Europe by invading Nazis. They would hide behind the sea and hope that their navy and air force could stop the possible German invasion of their island.
As the Battle of Britain raged on, the German and British air forces went head to head. Something strange happened, the Germans pulled of a series of highly effective night bombing raids. It’s strange because night bombing was incredibly ineffective for the most part.
Targets were dark, all the lights were off and there were no advanced navigation or GPS devices to guide bombs. Pilots and bombers in the Royal Air Force used astrodomes. These were domes in the top of the aircraft that allowed the flight crew to see the stars. A sextant was then used to figure out where to drop the bombs.
As you can imagine, old school sailing technology wasn’t exactly that effective in precision drops of ordinance.
This German bombing was much more effective than what the British could do at night. As a matter of fact, it was more accurate than what typical bombing could do in the day time.
The British city of Coventry would bear the brunt of this highly accurate night…
