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Nineteenth Operation

               29  June 1945               Take off: 10.16am.  Return: 15.51pm.
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                         Flensburg (Operation ‘Post Morten’)   Lancaster RF 200 D - Donald













                                                                  Two types of German radar the allied
                                                                   scientists were testing on Operation
                                                                              ‘Post Mortem’.


                                                                                    Left

                                                                      The Giant Würzburg parabola
                                                                       antenna: Diameter: 24 feet.
                                                                           range up to 43 miles.
















                              Right

               The Freya: long distance radar
                with a range of 74 miles.
               The radar frame is 29 feet x 19 feet.
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