![]() | Joan Curran has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. | |||||||||
| ||||||||||
![]() | Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the " On this day..." column on February 10, 2020, and February 10, 2024. |
![]() | This article is rated GA-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
GA toolbox |
---|
Reviewing |
Reviewer: Ian Rose ( talk · contribs) 15:13, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Will aim to get to this on or before the w/e. Cheers,
Ian Rose (
talk)
15:13, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Toolbox checks -- no dablink or EL issues.
Prose/structure/content
Images -- UK PD, no issues.
Sources -- Publisher/accessdate for Robin Turner (8 January 2015)?
Looking pretty good. Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 06:48, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Article looks good, but is there no further information that details her early childhood life or education? Vmalla3 ( talk) 18:20, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
She didn’t invent Chaff. Why are you persisting in this? 31.94.26.29 ( talk) 18:46, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Editors may not add content solely because they believe it is true, nor delete content they believe to be untrue, unless they have verified beforehand with a reliable source.
My conversation with Lindemann about ‘smoke screen’ reflections was effectively the beginning of what came to be known in Britain as ‘Window’ and in America as “Chaff”[1]
They were undertaken under Robert Cockburn’s direction at Swanage by Mrs. Joan Curran, now Lady Curran. Her results were all that we expected, and she tried various forms of reflector ranging from wires to leaflets, each roughly the size of a page in a notebook, on which, as a refinement, propaganda could be printed. The form that we finally favoured was a strip about 25 centimetres long and between 1 and 2 centimetres wide. The material was produced and made up into packets each weighing about a pound, and the idea was that the leading aircraft in a bomber stream would throw them out at the rate of one every minute or so, to produce the radar equivalent of a smoke-screen through which succeeding aircraft could fly. So much progress was made, after the years of delay, that by April 1942 enough material had been produced for it to be used by Bomber Command. It was given the code name “Window’ by A. P. Rowe, the Superintendent of T.R.E.[2]
References
![]() | Joan Curran has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. | |||||||||
| ||||||||||
![]() | Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the " On this day..." column on February 10, 2020, and February 10, 2024. |
![]() | This article is rated GA-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
GA toolbox |
---|
Reviewing |
Reviewer: Ian Rose ( talk · contribs) 15:13, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Will aim to get to this on or before the w/e. Cheers,
Ian Rose (
talk)
15:13, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Toolbox checks -- no dablink or EL issues.
Prose/structure/content
Images -- UK PD, no issues.
Sources -- Publisher/accessdate for Robin Turner (8 January 2015)?
Looking pretty good. Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 06:48, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Article looks good, but is there no further information that details her early childhood life or education? Vmalla3 ( talk) 18:20, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
She didn’t invent Chaff. Why are you persisting in this? 31.94.26.29 ( talk) 18:46, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Editors may not add content solely because they believe it is true, nor delete content they believe to be untrue, unless they have verified beforehand with a reliable source.
My conversation with Lindemann about ‘smoke screen’ reflections was effectively the beginning of what came to be known in Britain as ‘Window’ and in America as “Chaff”[1]
They were undertaken under Robert Cockburn’s direction at Swanage by Mrs. Joan Curran, now Lady Curran. Her results were all that we expected, and she tried various forms of reflector ranging from wires to leaflets, each roughly the size of a page in a notebook, on which, as a refinement, propaganda could be printed. The form that we finally favoured was a strip about 25 centimetres long and between 1 and 2 centimetres wide. The material was produced and made up into packets each weighing about a pound, and the idea was that the leading aircraft in a bomber stream would throw them out at the rate of one every minute or so, to produce the radar equivalent of a smoke-screen through which succeeding aircraft could fly. So much progress was made, after the years of delay, that by April 1942 enough material had been produced for it to be used by Bomber Command. It was given the code name “Window’ by A. P. Rowe, the Superintendent of T.R.E.[2]
References