WO 203/5127: Radar and Radio aids: general correspondence
01/01/1943 - 31/12/1945
General correspondence pertaining to radar and radio aids in Operation Zipper. Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia (SACSEA)'s telegram to Air Ministry Special Signal Office concerning the application of radar aids to air survey. A memorandum by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten on radar for ships in South East Asia and their use as a surface warning in Naval vessels and for offensive and defensive use in amphibious operations. Another memorandum by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten covered the use of radio aids to navigation in South East Asia and the potentialities of the Loran Chain system have been considered by the Admiralty and the Air Ministry to be of great value. Documents include Joint Planning Staff, JPS Paper 173 to examine the advisability and practicability of destroying the Japanese radar screen prior to the Zipper D. Day.
WO 203/5127
NAB 2946
English
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