Received Friday, 10.30 p.m.
LONDON, Nov. 7. The Germans on the Moscow front have begun to use a new detector system for finding concealed Russian batteries which heretofore as long as their whereabouts was unascertainable inflicted devastating losses, reports the Times’ correspondent on the German frontier. Teams of engineers specially trained and equipped and known as “B detachments” manipulate instruments placed in a number of positions and all directed from a central station. When the observer at the central station hears a gun fared he notifies by wireless all the substations simultaneously whereupon each station records the time at which the sound was heard by ear and also records by film the intensity of the light flash, from the data wirelessed back from the substations the exact position of the gun can be calculated by mechanised ready reckoners after which a broadcast is sent to ail the German batteries enabling their fire to be converged till the gun position is destroyed. A “B detachment” accompanies the vanguards, hence it is often exposed to the heaviest gunfire.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 266, 8 November 1941, Page 7
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