GeeBritish radar-beam system
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effect on air tactics
( in air warfare: Strategic bombing )
From late 1943 the RAF used two radar-beam systems called Gee and Oboe to guide its Lancaster and Halifax bombers to cities on the Continent. In addition, the bombers carried a radar mapping device, code-named H2S, that displayed reasonably detailed pictures of coastal cities such as Hamburg, where a clear contrast between land and water allowed navigators to find the target areas....
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New Zealand literature New Zealand literature
...comprehensive view of themselves and their society than fiction had previously offered. For a long time Gee’s best work was considered to be his Plumb trilogy—Plumb (1978), Meg (1981), and Sole Survivor (1983)—which tells the story of the Christian leftist George Plumb (based on Gee’s grandfather) and the subsequent fortunes of his children and...
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discussed in biography Gee, Maurice
...Glorious Morning, Comrade (1975) are set in this milieu. Gee’s best-known work is his Plumb trilogy, which examines the lives of three generations of a New Zealand family. The first book, Plumb (1978), covers the period from the 1890s through 1949; it is based on the career of Gee’s grandfather, a Presbyterian minister who was tried for heresy by his church and jailed for sedition...
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New Zealand literature New Zealand literature
...New Zealanders a more comprehensive view of themselves and their society than fiction had previously offered. For a long time Gee’s best work was considered to be his Plumb trilogy—Plumb (1978), Meg (1981), and Sole Survivor (1983)—which tells the story of the Christian leftist George Plumb (based on Gee’s grandfather) and the subsequent...
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New Zealand literature New Zealand literature
...and their society than fiction had previously offered. For a long time Gee’s best work was considered to be his Plumb trilogy—Plumb (1978), Meg (1981), and Sole Survivor (1983)—which tells the story of the Christian leftist George Plumb (based on Gee’s grandfather) and the subsequent fortunes of his children and grandchildren. His later...
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effect on air tactics air warfare
From late 1943 the RAF used two radar-beam systems called Gee and Oboe to guide its Lancaster and Halifax bombers to cities on the Continent. In addition, the bombers carried a radar mapping device, code-named H2S, that displayed reasonably detailed pictures of coastal cities such as Hamburg, where a clear contrast between land and water allowed navigators to find the target areas....
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discussed in biography Bee Gees, the
...Days (1970) and "
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
" (1971), but there were several hitless years before they returned to the charts with Main Course (1975). Recorded in Miami, Florida, U.S., grounded in rhythm and blues, and typified by the chart-topping single "Jive Talkin’,
" it put the Bee Gees at the...
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