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1945: WW2 intelligence report on the German Kurskoppler navigation computerr
BIOS: British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee :
German Kurskoppler: Model 3040-B, Model 3040-G
London: HMSO, September 1945. EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE.
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10 x 7.5 inches. 7 pages of printed typewriter-face text, 2 diagrams and 7 photographs of the Kurskoppler.
A very nice copy in slightly dusty original wrappers, faint library stamp on cover. Protected in a modern handmade archival cloth slipcase, leather label titled in gilt.
The Kurskoppler was an automatic dead reckoning computer designed by the Germans for use in aircraft, 2-man submarines and small boats, thus being a very early development in navigation computing. This report states the Kurskoppler to be "much less
complicated and more compact than its counterpart, the integrating mechanism, of the American airborne odograph".
Following the Normandy landings in 1944, combined American and British intelligence units (CIOS) working under SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied European Forces) produced a series of surveys and reports on captured German industry and armament
production as allied troops advanced across occupied Europe.
Printed in small numbers for a restricted circulation, this military intelligence report, containing material unpublished elsewhere, seldom comes onto the market.
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