Herbert Schmid

His father was the secretary to the German Chancellor and Foreign Minister, Gustav Stresemann[1] In 1974 the West German newspaper Bild am Sonntag ran a story about Herbert Schmid, written by Günther Stiller, claiming that he was a British agent, who had flown a Dornier Do 217 into a Lincolnshire RAF airfield on the night of 20 May 1941.

On Sunday 9 May 1943, at age 29, Schmid flew his Junkers Ju 88 R-1 (360043), equipped with the most advanced German nightfighter interception radar, to an RAF station at Aberdeen.

On 10 May, the three Luftwaffe aircrew, in civilian clothes, were given an RAF Regiment escort to Aberdeen railway station.

Prof RV Jones caught the night train from London, arriving on the morning of Tuesday 11 May.

Prof RV Jones said, at the meeting in Aberdeen, that this action by the Soviets had 'wrecked their own radar research'.

Prof RV Jones was the person who had been the first to convince the British government that German scientists had developed radar, mostly thanks to the Oslo Report, passed to the British Embassy in Oslo in Norway by its author, the physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer, on 4 November 1939.

[6] On 23 February 1941 Air Marshal Philip Joubert de la Ferté arranged a meeting to discuss whether the Germans had any radar, and Prof RV Jones showed him a picture of the Freya radar, taken the day before, at Auderville in France; the Germans had also — foolishly — named the radar system after the Norse goddess Freyja; given that the Norse goddess in question was known for her magical power to see over a hundred miles, British scientists did not need a surfeit of guesses to deduce the likely function of the German system.

[7] On 26 April 1943, the Ground Grocer radio transmitter at RAF Dunwich, on the Suffolk coast, began jamming the Emil-Emil wavelengths.

[8] In early 1975 the aircraft was restored to original condition at RAF St Athan in south Wales.