Foreword
It is a privilege for me to write this foreword to Rob Alexander’s book on Alan Blumlein because it enables me to pay tribute to a man with whom my acquaintance was short but historic. In the later chapters of this book readers will find an account of the problems facing Bomber Command in the early stages of World War II and of the circumstances that led to the urgent development of the long-range bombing aid which bore the code-name H2S. In the last days of 1941 I had been ordered to form a group to develop this system and had been informed that the finest group of electronic engineers in the country at EMI had been allocated the task of transforming the experimental system to an operational state.
I had already heard of Blumlein and ...
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