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| Tango01 | 30 Aug 2013 3:23 p.m. PST |
"New Zealand came perilously close to attack in World War II but an unsung group of men and women were watching our coastline. Author Sandra Coney tells Andrew Laxon how radar played its part Wartime Auckland: German raiders hunt merchant shipping in the Tasman Sea. A Japanese pilot flies a daring pre-dawn reconnaissance flight over the Waitemata Harbour, as Aucklanders sleep, blissfully unaware, below. And on a cliff high above Piha, men and women at a hastily built radar station scan their screens for a tell-tale "sausage" blip that could indicate an approaching enemy aircraft or submarine. Seventy years on, some believe they may have given warnings of enemy raids but still can't be sure. The truth is lost in a fog of wartime secrecy, limited understanding of the brand new technology and according to local historian Sandra Coney, a bit of old-fashioned sexism against the mainly female radar operators…"
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