Code Name Verity

Code Name Verity

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Elizabeth Wein

RDF refers to Range and Direction Finding, which is now called radar. It allows people on the ground to track planes in the air.
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RDF Term Timeline in Code Name Verity

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Part 1: Ormaie 10.XI.43 JB-S
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...what was happening on the British coast during the summer of 1940. She notes that RDF is “Range and Direction Finding.” The Americans call it radar, but in the summer of... (full context)
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Coastal Defense, the Unabridged Version. The Nazis didn’t realize how advanced RDF was in 1940. The English were outnumbered, but with RDF they could see the Luftwaffe... (full context)
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Coastal Defense, Damn It. The narrator explains how dots on the RDF screen represent planes, and from the ground, you can watch the battles happen and the... (full context)