Kammhuber Line
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The Kammhuber Line was the name given by the Allies to the German night-fighter air-defence system established in western Europe in July 1940 by Colonel Josef Kammhuber. It consisted of a series of co
A Lancaster within the bomber stream dropping window – the crescent-shaped white cloud on the left of the picture
Freya radar
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Freya was an early warning radar deployed by Germany during World War II; it was named after the Norse goddess Freyja. During the war, over a thousand stations were built. A naval version operating on
Kammhuber Line
…20 mi) long (north-south) and 20 kilometres (12 mi) wide (east-west). Each control centre was known as a Himmelbett (canopy bed) zone, consisting of a Freya radar with a range of about 100 kilometres (62 mi), a "master searchlight" directed by the radar, and a number of manually directed searchlights spread through…
A 1941 RAF PRU photograph of the two Freyas at Auderville
Freya (right) and Würzburg-Riese, Romania, 1944
FuMG 401 "Freya-Fahrstuhl" (German: Freya elevator)