Operation Biting Archives

Secrets of World War II episode 5

History / 5 minutes of reading / January 10, 2023 / By HDclump

Secrets of World War II episode 5: In 1942 a reconnaissance Spitfire photographed a strange shaped piece of German apparatus in a Normandy field. It turned out to be a sophisticated German radar system whose secrets had to be discovered. On the night of February 27, 1942, British paratroopers dropped into snowcovered fields along the coast of France. Their mission: to capture a top secret German radar installation near the town of Bruneval. Relive the astonishing nighttime attack–and discover how it played a vital role in the Allied bombing offensive against Hitler’s Reich in “The Bruneval Raid.” […]

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Great Raids of World War II episode 3 – Radar Beam Raiders

History / 4 minutes of reading / December 28, 2022 / By HDclump

Great Raids of World War II episode 3 – Radar Beam Raiders: As RAF Bomber Command began to strike back at Nazi Germany, it was soon suffering unsustainable losses from the Nazi air defence system. At its heart were as yet unidentified radar systems using wavelengths which urgently needed to be cracked. At last, in December 1941 a key German radar installation was located at Bruneval near the French North Sea coast, and a team of Britain’s new paratroops were sent in to seize it. Operation Biting was a British military operation that took place during World

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