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British Radar Crews Saw ‘Ghost Fleets’ — Then Realized Chaff Had Blinded the Luftwaffe

On the night of July 24–25, 1943, German Würzburg and Freya radar scopes bloomed with “ghost fleets”—endless contacts with no engine noise. Across the Channel, RAF Bomber Command deployed Window (chaff): aluminum strips cut to radar wavelength that blinded Luftwaffe guidance and threw Hamburg’s air defenses into confusion. This film reconstructs how simple reflection became a weapon of invisibility, why Operation Gomorrah produced an unusually low loss rate, and how a force that trusted radar absolutely was forced into “decisions made under blindness.”

Follow the British radar crews from the North Sea to Hamburg; see No. 8 Group pathfinders lay markers, how chaff corridors broke radar-directed flak, and how Britain and the U.S. opened the era of Electronic Warfare (ECM/ELINT). More than a story about Window/Chaff and Luftwaffe radar, this is a hard lesson in speed, discipline, and sensor deception that reshaped modern air war.

00:00 Ghost Fleets on German radar
03:12 Window: turning reflection into invisibility
07:40 Hamburg & Operation Gomorrah
12:05 Luftwaffe “blindness” — flak goes visual
16:20 From Window to ECM/ELINT
19:30 Legacy: sight vs. story

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