May

Part II: Hangklip, Betty’s Bay and Kleinmond during World War II After the successful trials in Johannesburg, three members of the top secret Special Signal Services (SSS) went about building a network of radar stations along the coast. Setting up the first station in Cape Town was not without its problems, though. Major ‘Boz’ Bozzoli, Lieutenant Eric Boden and Staff […]

PART 1: Radar in World War II ­ Hangklip, Betty’s Bay and Kleinmond Historians love to play the game of “What really won the war?” and for World War II answers range from the Secret Service hoax of ‘the man who never was’; to the decoding of German military messages by Alan Turing and colleagues at Bletchley Park; to Robert Oppenheimer and […]