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Sworn to Secrecy: Canadians on Radar, 1940-1945
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Radar Instructor's Typical Daily Schedule showing instructors and various course topics
1 of 29 		Training at Cranwell, New Year's Day 1942
2 of 29 		AMES Type 16, overlooking RAF Hythe, near Southampton on the south coast of England
3 of 29 		Members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force were trained as radar operators and plotters
4 of 29 		Filter Rooms were used to track friendly and enemy aircraft
5 of 29 		A rail yard thought to store German munitions prior to a bombing raid led by OBOE radar
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The same rail yard a short time later shows how accurate and deadly the bombing raids could be.
7 of 29 		Accurate bombing raids were useful when used to disrupt the production or transport of enemy goods
8 of 29 		Men and women worked side-by-side as radar operators, tracking the incoming aircraft
9 of 29 		Personnel outside a Nissen hut, at Rodel, Scotland.
10 of 29 		Large trucks helped bring men and equipment further into Europe after D-day
11 of 29 		The AMES Type 19 aerial trailer shown here was just one of many types of mobile radar units
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Part of LAC Kenneth Wells' scrapbook, showing mobile OBOE radar equipment in Alsace after D-day
13 of 29 		AMES Type 9000 (OBOE) in action in the Alsace, just prior to the Battle of the Bulge
14 of 29 		Lining up for the canteen at RAF Woodvale in 1944, where RAF Sqdn 256 was based flying Beaufighters
15 of 29 		Ground Control Interception (GCI) radar convoy in Italy
16 of 29 		A GCI radar convoy in Italy. Mobile radar units were very effective overseas.
17 of 29 		RCAF Personnel on their way home from Italy in 1945
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