"Some German bombers landed at UK bases, believing they were back in Germany."

I dimly recall from my youth in Cornwall that it was a particular problem if the aircraft ended up too far west - they would leave the South Wales coast, cross the Bristol Channel - confuse that with the English Channel, and then land, lost, at the first airbase they found in Cornwall -thinking they were at least in France.

Interesting! You always hear about the battles won with guns and bombs, but very rarely do you get to learn about battles between engineers.

There is a spectacular book about the Battle Of the Beams written by R. V. Jones, who was the British scientist in charge of countering the German technical advances.<p>I can't recommend it enough, although it is a very in-depth read: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Most-Secret-Penguin-World-Collection/dp/0141042826/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1281960791&#38;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Most-Secret-Penguin-World-Collection...</a>

Hallicrafters S-27 ftw!<p>As one of my EE professors stated, "In RADAR, the odds are stacked in favor of the jammer". While this isn't radar similar principles apply.

The article actually says 'RAF bases', not 'UK bases', so I presume the error wasn't necessarily as large as the distance between Germany and the UK.

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