Battle of the Beams

Battle of the Beams

In World War II (1940s), The German Air Force, aka the Luftwaffe used a system called Knickebein, in which bombers followed one radio beam broadcast from ground stations on the continent until that beam was intersected by another beam at a point over the target. Lead bombers would then drop incendiary bombs on the target. Winston Churchill's scientific advisor initially did not believe such a system would work on globe earth and delayed any countermeasures which resulted in heavy casualties. This incident proves that belief in globe pseudoscience can be disastrous.