“NUMBER 10 THING”
BRITISH COMMANDER’S SECRET RADIO The secret' has just been revealed of a wonderful new radio transmitting device which throughout the campaign in France and Germany enabled Field Marshal Montgomery to speak directly—and secretly to Mr Churchill in London. Monty called this secret wireless set his “Number 10 thing.”
Though portable wireless transmitters were a great help to our men in the war, their use was restricted because the enemy could often, by tuning into the wireless messages, overhear everything that was being said. The wireless set used by Field Marshal Montgomery, however, 'was proof against enemy eavesdroppers.
The reason for this was that the new wireless transmitter operated on centimetre waves. The beam was a Very narrow one and the Germans knew nothing of such a device being used.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 61, 10 April 1946, Page 3
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132“NUMBER 10 THING” Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 61, 10 April 1946, Page 3
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