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The name is given as "GEE", not "Gee", in PriceInstruments of Darkness which is the definitive printed reference work I know of on this field, so I'm going to go with that name.Noel(talk) 19:11, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I also had this confirmed via an e-mail from the chairman of the Duxford Radio Society. —PMcM 23:57, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
A reproduction copy of the Radar Bulletin Victory Souvenir Number 1945 originally published by RAF 60 Group, has an article on Gee and Oboe. This used the spelling "Gee" throughout. I would not call "Instruments of Darkness" as the definitive book, just another book on the subject. R V Jones used "Gee" in Most Secret War but his one reference in Reflections on Intelligence uses "GEE". Michael Bragg uses "GEE" in RDF1. Louis Brown uses "Gee". E G Bowen seems to use "GEE" though can only find in the index. Colin Latham uses "Gee" and I think the key to map of sites is a copy of an original RAF one. I get the impression that both spellings were used and both should be given in the main article as the evidence is that both were use during WWII. --jmb16:25, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This site is written by someone worked on GEE/Gee and uses both spellings --jmb18:47, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Were there Southern and Western chains? The map of RAF radar and navaid stations at the end of WWII that appears in various books shows these GEE sites --jmb00:14, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This site shows four chains in 1948 South Western, Eastern, Scottish and Southern. This suggests there might have been at least five chains during WWII unless each had moree slaves. --jmb22:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In the 1956-159 period I was stationed with 550 SU at Fort Spijkerboor, Holland, then 889 SU near Eckenforde, Germany, and then 330 SU outside Ingolstadt in Bavaria. We never seemed to be operational. Just closing down and moving all the time. Were we just a ruse or deception...we never were told.—Precedingunsigned comment added by198.143.201.9 (talk)05:51, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
"During the development phase, a trial Gee set was on board a Vickers Wellington flying over occupied Europe. The aircraft crashed, and although the equipment was not fitted with demolition charges, the British couldn't be sure that the set wouldn't be studied by the Germans. It subsequently appeared that the Germans completely missed it."
I'm readingTarget America:Hitler's plan to attack the United States, (James P. Duffy, Lyons Press 2004,ISBN 1-59228-934-7) which states: "Following the... bombing of... Lubeck on March 8, 1942, [Dietrich] Schwenke searched the wreckage of a [RAF] Wellington bomber and made a vital discovery. He found a navigation aid the British code-named Gee... The discovery quickly lead to the German development of technology to successfully jam the Gee signals." It cites Louis L. Snyder,Louis L. Snyder's Historical Guide to World War II (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982),265. I'm assuming this is the wreck the article refers to - if the source is accurate, the Germans didn't completely miss it.JW09:42, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What was special about Gee H? Used to be in Hastings aircraft and presumably others up to 1960.86.141.115.102 (talk)15:16, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
GEE H was used in early versions of the Canberra bomber, but not in the Suez campaign since the network did not extend that farSoarhead77 (talk)22:00, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The original patent and IEEE reports on Gee from 1946 both use "Gee". The upper case form appears primarily in military sources. In the days before word processing and WYSIWYG, this was a common replacement for bold text. We use bold text on the Wiki to draw attention to the names of the main objects of interest in the article, and in the past that would have been upper case instead. I think in this case I'm going to go with the inventor's own use pattern, and suggest this be moved to "Gee".Maury Markowitz (talk)13:37, 18 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
On 10 November last year the lead read "GEE was the code name given to T.R. 1335" It was supported by two inline citations.The next edit on the 13 November removed those inline citations. "T.R. 1334" was removed from the lead when thelead was changed to "Gee was the code name given to aradio navigation system". Why was T.R. 1335 removed? --PBS (talk)09:41, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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