From: "Paul Ranson" 

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/fh114coventry.htm

I assume that every (night) fighter in the RAF would always have been
available, and that radar and detection of the German navigation beams
would have provided knowledge of the target  in sufficient time. Especially
for somewhere as inland as Coventry.

Paul

"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
news:dia61vc55s2rh8gp0r3qqnq8qms1dpbumc{at}4ax.com...
> On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:16:15 -0000, "Paul Ranson"

> wrote:
>
> >I think there's an element of urban myth there. What could be done about
it?
> >
> Every fighter in the RAF could have been up to intercept. They
> weren't.
>
> >Paul
> >
> >"David N. Barnett"  wrote in message
> >news:u5k41vc4k3fg02133g4s9hk7e4vijkfvof{at}4ax.com...
> >> On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 18:25:20 -0600, Bill Lucy

> >> wrote in message :
> >>
> >> | > And Coventry.
> >> |
> >> | We bombed Coventry?
> >>
> >> No, but the Brits knew it was coming and couldn't do anything about
> >> it, without showing their hand that they had cracked German encription
> >> methods.
> >>
> >> --dnb
> >>
>

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