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cells and allowing them to attack on their own. This was not all that easy, given the capabilities of the current generation of radars, but newer systems being developed would greatly increase the detection range and angles. In this role the existing cells created as part of the original Kammhuber
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Another tactic that proved effective was to send their own planes to England while the raids were taking off or landing. Radio operators listening to the RAF bomber frequencies were able to recognize the start of a raid and the raiding force of about 30 night fighters would be sent over the RAF
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in 1916 and was promoted to Second Lieutenant in 1917. He remained in Germany's post-war army, and in 1925 was promoted to First Lieutenant. Between October 1926 and September 1928, he received division-level leadership training. From 1 May to 30 September 1930, he was sent to the
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stations with overlapping coverage. The stations were layered three deep from Denmark to the middle of France, each covering a zone about 32 km (20 mi) long (north-south) and 20 km (12 mi) wide (east-west). Each control centre was known as a
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bombers had dropped target marker flares over Berlin and most of the night fighter force was sent there. When it was realized what was really happening, most of these aircraft were too far away and too slow to intercept the raid. However, the
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airbases to shoot down the bombers as they took off or landed. By the beginning of October the night intruder force had claimed a hundred kills but on October 13, Hitler ordered the force sent to the Mediterranean, despite their success.
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center to get continual readings on the positions of both aircraft, controlling them to a visual interception. To aid in this, a number of the night fighters were fitted with a short-range
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in Norway (September–October 1944). In 1945 Kammhuber was re-appointed to command of the night fighters, at this point a largely ceremonial position considering the state of the
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sent aircraft one at a time to force the defenses to be spread as far apart as possible, meaning that any one aircraft would have to deal with little concentrated flak. The
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The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches
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with a range of about 100 km (62 mi), a number of searchlights spread through the cell, and one primary and one backup
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forces were able to reach them, and about 30 planes entered the third and last wave of the stream and shot down 29 of the 40
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He organised the night fighting units into a chain known to the British as the Kammhuber Line, which was a series of
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centers were only dealing with perhaps one or two planes at a time, making their job much easier. At the urging of
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envisioned freeing the night fighters (now equipped with radar for the final stages of the interception) from the
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At the same time Kammhuber continued to press for a new dedicated nightfighter design, eventually selecting the
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British intelligence soon discovered the nature of the Kammhuber Line and started studying ways to defeat it.
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by British military intelligence allowed them to render it ineffective. Personal battles between him and
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Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Kammhuber returned to active duty in February 1939 and was assigned as chief-of-staff of
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in Norway, in command of a handful of outdated planes. After the reorganization of the
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Line would be used primarily for early warning and vectoring the planes to the stream.
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Kammhuber started looking for solutions, and the result was the two-prong concept of
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Fighting the Bombers: The Luftwaffe's Struggle Against the Allied Bomber Offensive
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Kammhuber was 18 and joined a Bavarian engineer battalion. He participated in the
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after seeing it demonstrated in 1942. However Milch had decided to cancel the
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device known as 'Spanner anlage' but these proved almost useless in practice.
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s in Germany led to the recall of the searchlights to the major cities.
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in 1956. Pike had previously served as an RAF night fighter pilot.
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Kammhuber created the night fighter defense system, the so-called
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Grand Officers of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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Problems in the Conduct of a Day and Night Defensive Air War
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on the conduct of the German defenses against the RAF and
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Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Günther Rall: My Flight Book—Recollections 1938–2004
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Dear, I. C. B. and M. R. D. Foot, "Kammhuber Line."
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Inspector of the West German Air Force
TĂĽĂźling
Kingdom of Bavaria
German Empire
Munich
West Germany
Westfriedhof (Munich)
German Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
West Germany
Luftwaffe
German Air Force
General
World War I
World War II
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Imperial German Army
Luftwaffe
Nazi Germany
German Air Force
World War II
general
night fighters
Kammhuber Line
Royal Air Force
Erhard Milch
Reich Air Ministry
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