Jack’s Radar War

• Memorial Text
• Flight Sergeant Jack Nissenthall – RAF Radar Expert
• Jack Nissenthall was a Royal Air Force electronics and radar expert who played a role in the Dieppe Raid during “Operation Jubilee”, which took place on the 18th & 19th August 1942.
• Whilst the raid failed, Jack along with his bodyguard of Canadian soldiers from the South Saskatchewan Regiment managed to fight their way to the German Radar station under heavy fire where he cut the connecting inter-radar communication cables and this forced the Germans to use radio.
• This was intercepted by UK listening stations revealing the radio’s secret capabilities. This enabled UK scientists to develop top secret radar jamming devices, which saved thousands of lives during the rest of the war, and especially on D-Day the 6th June 1944.