How did the Germans destroy the radar station along the British coast before the Battle of Vulture Day?

Monday, August 6th 1940, 12 After several days of rain, there was a short sunny day over the English Channel with good visibility.

In the morning, a group of German planes flew west against the sea. When their plane climbed, they soon saw the cliff on the British coast across the channel. The mission of this flight is not air combat, but a special mission to blow up radar stations on the east and south coasts of Britain. The target of the attack is the antenna towers standing on the eastern and southern coasts of Britain. This towering antenna tower can clearly see the other side of the channel from the French coast with a telescope.

For several months, the German army has been systematically monitoring the radio communication and radar usage of the British army. The Germans were surprised to find that the enemy had made new progress in organization. Britain has deployed many radars in its eastern, southern and western coastal areas, forming a "coastal low-altitude search radar network". Each radar station in the network receives information and sends it to the central command post. Through the analysis of the central command post, we can know the situation of enemy planes, so as to command the British fighter squadron to take off and intercept correctly and reasonably. This measure deprived the Germans of the vital magic weapon of surprise attack. Needless to say, the invasion of German bombers, that is, when the Germans flew over France to gather, the British army had already detected it clearly with radar. If the German Air Force wants to change its disadvantageous position when fighting with the Royal Air Force, it must first destroy the British coastal radar station. This is the task of Rubens Delfa formation today. To this end, 250 kg or 500 kg bombs were hung under the wing of each plane. Although it is a fighter, it has a bomb twice as big as the Ju-88 dive bomber.

This attack is not only a preparation for the "Vulture Day Campaign", but also a prelude to the German Air Force's decisive battle in Britain.

Captain Rubens Delfa looked at his watch. It was a few minutes before 1 1. After he gave a brief order, the squadrons that had already flown to the coast immediately dispersed and quickly flew to their respective targets.

Captain Martin Lutz 1 Squadron set out from Eastburn, and just entered the British inland, it found Persevere radar station. Six German Messerschmitt planes began to climb. However, because there are 500 kg bombs hanging under the two wings, the climbing height is not so flexible. The plane finally climbed to the required altitude, then turned around, turned off the throttle and roared down to the target. When the optical sight was aimed at the nearest 1 of the four antenna towers, Captain Lutz was the first to drop the bomb. Then, the fleet passed the radar station like a sudden storm. * * * Eight bombs hit the target, of which 1 directly hit the slender antenna tower, 1 blew up the main cable. ...

At the same time, the second squadron, led by Captain Rossiger, is attacking the Rilida station near Hastings, destroying all buildings on the ground. The third squadron led by Captain Heinz attacked the radar station near Dover, and three bombs landed near the antenna tower. Although the two antenna towers were blown askew, they did not fall down. Attacks in other places are similar, and almost all of them are reported as scheduled tasks.

When the attack formation returned, all the targets emitted black smoke. However, through the billowing black smoke, people found that most antenna towers still stood. Later, it was found that after emergency repairs, most of the attacked radar stations in Britain began to work three hours after the attack. ...

From 1 1: 30, 63 Ju-88 bombers were dispatched from the 3rd Battalion of German Bombing Aviation Corps 5 1 and 54th to attack Portsmouth Port. Among them, the 1 brigade 15 plane attacked the radar station near Ventoil, causing serious damage to the radar station there beyond repair. In order to plug this gap, the British built a new radar station on the Isle of Wight after 1 1 construction day and night.

On this day, six radar stations in Britain were hit and seriously damaged, and the 1 radar station was completely destroyed. But the Germans did not continue to concentrate on the attack. The British, on the other hand, sent false signals from the ruins of the destroyed radar station, making the Germans mistakenly think that their bombing was not in vain. The Germans really fell into the trap of the British army, and soon completely abandoned the attack on the British radar station, which left a hidden danger for their final failure.

Although the expected purpose of attacking the radar station was not achieved, the German attack on frontline base-British fighter forces in Kent at the same time was a great success.

At 9: 30, the DO-1 7 aircraft of Major Gutzmann's 2nd Bombing Aviation Corps1Brigade, under the cover of powerful fighter planes, carried out saturation bombing of Linnaeus Airport in Britain. Hundreds of 50 kg bombs bombed the runway of this airport, and even the hangar of the airport was destroyed. The Hawking base of the British Air Force Fighter Command was subsequently attacked. At the same time, the Linnai base, which was just attacked in the morning, was attacked again.

13: 30, the British fighter Manston base was also violently attacked for the first time. The attack was carried out by Rubens Delfa, who just attacked the British coastal radar station this morning. Because the British radar station was paralyzed like a blind man at this time, the surprise attack of Rubens Delfa formation was a great success. When the Manston base received the alarm, 1 minute later, the plane attacked by the Germans flew over the airport.

When hearing the alarm, the pilots of the 65th Squadron of the Royal Air Force at the airport quickly jumped into the cockpit of the Spitfire fighter and started the plane. 12 aircraft began to taxi to the runway, and the first three-aircraft formation had filled the throttle and slid away on the runway. Just then, a German plane flew over the airport, and suddenly a dark bomb fell from the air. After a burst of indiscriminate bombing, almost all the remaining four hurricane fighters and five other planes in the airport were blown up from the air, and bombs exploded in the hangar and airport dormitory, and the fire swallowed up most of the buildings ... The loss of Manston Airport was quite serious.

In the evening, small-scale operations in coastal areas have ended. On this day, the German 2nd and 3rd Air Forces, escorted by powerful fighters, put in 300 dive bombers. The British know that a large-scale air battle is coming, because today the dive bombers invested by the German Air Force are only 1/3 of the total strength.