Thank you, Peanut, I'm wrong about that, but the Americans used radar against Japanese fighter planes and that was my point. You have to give credit where it's due. The Brits also developed Cat Scan and MRI. They also conquered America for us from the Spanish, Dutch and French. Thank you again!
hey I was just pulling your chain GB ... actually most folk probably wouldn't know much about the development of RDF . I happen to know because my late Father was a Radar operator on HMS Dispatch and HMS Glenearn during WW2 . He ran some Atlantic convoys and his ship HMS Glenearn delivered American and British Special forces to the beaches at Normandy. HMS Glenearn carried 24 LCAs and 3x LCMs and over 1500 GIs at a time !
After 6 weeks of ferrying supplies and troops the ship was repainted in Pacific colours and fitted with a small helicopter and eventually ended up at Kure Japan as a command centre 12 miles from Hiroshima.
My Father must have been the only serving Royal Navy rating during WW2 to travel in a B17 Flying Fortress aircraft serial No 42-30811 based at 306th Bombardment Group at Thurleigh UK . His Sister (my Aunt ) married a base Crew Chief Herbert Mcgary and so Mac arranged for my Father to go up in one of the newly arrived B17 bombers for a 2 hour test flight along the coast prior to a bombing raid the following week over Schweinfurt Germany. Sadly all but one of the crew were later reported MIA . An interesting story I must tell some time.
Apologies for the thread hyjack goldenboy . I have been following this with much interest