[Robert Bergeron]

Very nice truck Hanno. Quite complete.

The gun laying radar was for air defense.

We have one of the associated guns here in Saint -Georges as a monument.

It was an artillery task. A fellow member of Branch 249 was an AAA artillery man and worked with that gun and that radar suite in Norway in the immediate post war period. He is in his 80's now and is a past president of our Branch.

I have located two of those guns and i intend to rapatriate them to show three in our remebrance park.

When similar REL radars were used to locate incoming ennemy aircraft or V1, V2 rockets for interception by the fighters , they were operated by the Air Force.

They became obsolete in the late 50's with the Jet age and supersonic flight.But remember that the Soviet bombers were slow even into the 60's and they relied on the ''swarm '' concept to overcome air defense. That is when the Bomarc missiles came into action replacing the Arrow interceptor concept in the late 50's ,early 60's .

Everything changed when the ICBM's could reach New-York and other large North American urban centers.

So, in short , late in the war the the Germans did not have any offensive air capabilities and AAA assets sat idle only to comme alive again in the early Cold War against a possible Soviet aggression. All motorised by CMP trucks.

Cheers.