I listened to a Radio 4 programme earlier in the week that is closely related to the topic - "Things we forgot to remember". A description of the programme content is below, and it was (for a change on the BBC) sympathetic to bomber command. The interview excerpts with the BC veteran (a highly experienced nav leader) were both informative of attitudes at the time and...well it was probably a touch of hay fever or dust in the air...very moving. The technical bits are fascinating, and the sheer good luck of being gifted the Luftwaffe equipment almost beyond belief.
Through the story of a German night fighter captured in Suffolk, Michael Portillo remembers the crucial electronic war waged between the Axis and the Allies.
In July 1944 the crew of a Junkers JU88 night fighter, lost and without fuel, emergency landed their plane on an RAF airfield in Suffolk. This gift from the skies provided British Air Intelligence with the latest German radar secrets. Throughout the war a technological see-saw had been underway with each side trying to gain the the advantage in radar detection and evasion equipment. The radar technology in this particular night fighter explained why large numbers of British bombers were being shot down from the rear and the RAF aircraft were quickly modified as a result.
Alongside distinguished historians and veterans of RAF Bomber Command Michael pieces together the story of that fateful night. He also explores how it illuminates the vital - yet lesser known - battle front of electronic warfare.
Just type into your favourite search engine "Things, etc, as above" to go straight to the Beeb link.
Mister B