{"id":10939,"date":"2014-10-06T11:31:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10939"},"modified":"2014-10-06T11:31:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:31:23","slug":"video-the-battle-of-the-beams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/video-the-battle-of-the-beams\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Battle of the Beams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to S<em>WLing Post<\/em> reader, <a title=\"Check out Jonathan's Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Marks<\/a>, who shares this video about\u00a0Luftwaffe Navigation Beams via YouTube&#8211;fascinating WWII history:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uf5caj9ZhpQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This episode documented how British Intelligence became aware of various German Luftwaffe Navigation Beams, such as Knickebein, X Gerat and Y Gerat, and the counter measures developed to combat them, in what became known as the <em>Battle of the Beams<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It is largely based on the book <a title=\"Most Secret War - on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/185326699X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=185326699X&amp;link_code=as3&amp;tag=swlcom01-20&amp;linkId=CM2IHV3VVHWO5JH4\" target=\"_blank\">Most Secret War<\/a> written by R.V.Jones who features heavily in the series. This programme contains rare footage of The Blitz including the bombing of Coventry. Interviewees include Albert Speer and AVM Edward Addison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Jonathan Marks, who shares this video about\u00a0Luftwaffe Navigation Beams via YouTube&#8211;fascinating WWII history: Video description: This episode documented how British Intelligence became aware of various German Luftwaffe Navigation Beams, such as Knickebein, X Gerat and Y Gerat, and the counter measures developed to combat them, in what became known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[288,304],"tags":[3290,4091,3291,676],"class_list":["post-10939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-history","category-videos","tag-battle-of-the-beams","tag-radio-history","tag-video","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Qr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38159,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/otr-cbs-radio-workshop-episode-includes-interval-signal-from-radio-rhodesia\/","url_meta":{"origin":10939,"position":0},"title":"OTR: CBS Radio Workshop episode includes interval signal from &#8220;Radio Rhodesia&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"June 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who passes along this interesting radio show from the CBS Radio Workshop and a description from his friend, Art Chimes. 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