SECRET BOMBING DEVICE
(Rec. 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 28. The secret of what the R.A.F. calls the “Gen Box,” whereby a bomb-aimer can “see through miles of cloud or darkness and pick out the target with accuracy comparable to visual bombing,” has at last been revealed, says the aviation correspondent of the British United Press.
British scientists are chiefly responsible for the device on which they worked for a year. The invention is one of the greatest British technical achievements of the war. It has enabled the R.A.F. and the U.S.A.A.F. to operate on hundreds of occasions when the weather made visual bombing impossible. It was first installed on British heavy bombers and developed during raids over Germany.
The device is worked on the radar principle. Full details cannot be given for security reasons.
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Southland Times, Issue 25533, 29 November 1944, Page 5
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