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From: tiwasawa@netxdev.DHL.COM (Takashi Iwasawa)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Help with Cat's Eyes Cunningham
Message-ID: <1990Jul12.025725.19129@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 12 Jul 90 02:57:25 GMT
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From: tiwasawa@netxdev.DHL.COM (Takashi Iwasawa)

In article <1990Jul8.053618.8521@cbnews.att.com> boebert@SCTC.COM (Earl Boebert) writes:
>
>
>From: boebert@SCTC.COM (Earl Boebert)
>Well, it seems I posted an item to a different newsgroup about the
>British deception in WWII where they attempted to cover the existence
>of airborne radar by putting out news stories that a combination of
>testing and lots of carrots had improved their pilot's night vision.
>(This because the night fighters were suddenly significantly more
>effective.)  They even picked one Flight Lieutenant Cunningham and had
>the press dub him "Cat's Eyes."
>
>So, can any gentle reader out there get me off the hook and come up
>with a reference?
>
>Earl

Try "Night Fighter" by C. F. Rawnsley and Robert Wright (copyright 1957
the edition I have is Ballantine Books paperback 2nd printing 1983
ISBN 0-345-31025-X).  See page 55.  Rawnsley was Cunningham's radar
operator for most of the war.

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