Secret Weapon: U.S. High-frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic - Hardcover

Williams, Kathleen Broome

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9781557509352: Secret Weapon: U.S. High-frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic

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ISBN 10: 1557509352 ISBN 13: 9781557509352

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 1996

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The war against U-boats in the Atlantic was won in part by a high-frequency direction finder -- called Huff Duff or HF/DF for short -- that could pinpoint the location of radio transmitters. The story of HF/DF's development and operation in combat by the U.S. Navy is told here for the first time in revealing detail.

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A history tracing the development of the high-frequency direction finder HF/DF (Huff-Duff) during World War II and its part in helping the Allies to locate German submarines. Williams (criminal justice, John Jay College, City U. of New York) describes the creation of HF/DF by ITT, its aggressive promotion to the military by private enterprises, the

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