Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Why didn't the Germans just send up all their interceptors to stop the thousand bomber raids?" video.

Some years ago I read the autobiography of an RAF officer who was a radar operator in a nightfighter. While flying over Germany they came across a German nightfighter flying around a beacon some miles from where the RAF's bombers were attacking. They could not understand why the fighter was there miles from the bomber and came to the conclusion the pilot was a coward and was hiding from the bombers. There are a couple of reasons why this German was where he was. Firstly, he was flying in his designated box. Secondly, that he had been sent there by the British. The RAF was using people who spoke fluent German and were broadcasting on the same radio frequency and telling the pilots that the British were trying to trick them and not to listen to the other person. The other person being the real German. So German pilots were being told by German speaking RAF personnel to fly to a point away from where they should have been. This caused sufficient confusion amongst the German pilots that many would follow the instruction of the RAF personnel rather then their own people. One night the Germans did try and catch the RAF out. The German controllers were I believe all male, it has been some time since I read this so I may be wrong as to whether they were all male or all female. The Germans suddenly changing all their personnel to all female, or male, believing this would catch the British out. The British seem to have been aware of this, or at least the anticipated the possibility that this may happen, as they suddenly changed their personnel as well. So now the German pilots are having to deal with the added confusion of both sides suddenly changing their people and the same old arguments as to who was genuine and who was not. You get the feelimg they longed to be back on the Eastern Front.
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