Originally Posted by
Pontius Navigator
PPRT, how quaint. In the 60s you already had Nudets.
In UK we had the Royal Observer Corps, volunteers in small buried bunkers spread discretely around the UK and manned by 3 people. Burst direction was observed using the burn marks on a paper screen I believe. Many bunkers were only a few miles from major target s but they should have been OK.
Less fortunate would have been their liaison officers at the target.
Quite right, PN! The Ground Zero Indicator (GZI) was a small white dustbin with four pinhole cameras showing elevation and bearing of any burst on photographic paper. Before that the Bomb Power Indicator (BPI) showed the overpressure of the blast, and after waiting a minute No. 3 Observer went out to change the papers...
