CCI Digest 798 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Dutch Avros by "Brian.E.Hall" 2) Re: German Bombers by "johnbarfoot" 3) GURNEY, Alfred Rell by H Giblin 4) Early Wireless (radar) Developments by "Mitch Williamson" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:44:13 -0500 From: "Brian.E.Hall" To: "cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: Dutch Avros Message-ID: <200301251544_MC3-1-26B0-1C6@compuserve.com> Peter >> now have yet another civil registration << Can I presume you have a copy of Swanborough as a reference backup? Brian ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:47:40 -0000 From: "johnbarfoot" To: Subject: Re: German Bombers Message-ID: <000201c2c4b3$e66ba6c0$8b926fd4@oemcomputer> ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Multiple recipients of list Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:06 PM Subject: [CCI] Re: German Bombers Hello Dave, Yes as you rightly say GOTHA SUMMER is an excellent read, however for someone new to the Great War period with an interest in aviation, it only covers the German (daylight) air raids on 'Blighty' from May to August 1917. Wednesday 13 June 1917 saw the first serious Gotha raid on London, it was a a fine feat of arms in daylight spoilt only by the 18 infants of an East End school who were among the 116 fatal casualties inflicted during the raid. WAR ON GREAT CITIES by Frank Morison 1937 is a must read for a serious student of the rigid airship, Gotha and Giant bombing raids on the capitol of the British Empire during the Great War. The WOGC index lists the first aeroplane raid on the City was carried out by a single engined LVG during daylight on Tuesday 28th November 1916 and the second a night raid by a Gotha on the 6/7th May 1917. My bible THE AIR DEFENCE OF BRITAIN, lists the latter as an Albatros CVII and that is good enough for me! I digress as usual, as good as GOTHA SUMMER is only three raids were carried out on London by aeroplanes during Daylight, the remaining fifteen were night raids outside the scope of this book. This group is firing on all cylinders again, keep up the interesting emails, do not be put off by old windbags like me! Before you shoot me down there was of course the so called London 'cock-crow' raid on the morning of Thursday 6th December 1917, but WOGC as it taking place 'shortly before daybreak' and TADOB have the mixed bag of Gotha and Giants over SE England and London between 0200 and 0615hrs, hardly a daylight raid when you study the details. The best of British as I remember it, John B. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:27:45 -0500 From: H Giblin To: "INTERNET:cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu" Subject: GURNEY, Alfred Rell Message-ID: <200301251927_MC3-1-267A-95B1@compuserve.com> Nick Many thanks. Hal ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 08:55:03 +0800 From: "Mitch Williamson" To: Subject: Early Wireless (radar) Developments Message-ID: <003101c2c4d5$900bb640$9c6c32d2@lidlessiwieexh> Dear List Talking of 'wireless', for your possible interest: According to Alan Beyerchen's essay, "From Radio to Radar" in Murray & Millet (eds) _Military Innovation in the Interwar Period, _ ISBN 0-521-63760-0: "by 1904 a young German named Christian Hulsemeyer claimed his patented "telemobiloscope" could transmit radio waves and receive their reflections off a passing object." To save quoting the whole thing, the device worked up to 5 km (in 1904), but funds were lacking and shipping operators were more interested in communication than warning and there were Marconi's patents to consider. Best Wishes Mitch ------------------------------ End of CCI Digest 798 *********************