ABSTRACT
Kammhuber Line The Kammhuber Line, named after Luftwajfe General Josef Kammhuber (q.v.), was a German version of the British CHAIN HOME (q.v.). It was a defense system composed of radars, searchlights, antiaircraft Flak artillery, and night fighters. It consisted of nearly 750 stations stretching from Denmark to Ostend, Belgium, and around the principal German industrial centers. There were so many stations that the Allies were unable to knock enough of them out to effectively penetrate the line. Construction began in June 1940, and by March 1941, a line was completed from Denmark to the Rhine Estuary in the Netherlands. The Kammhuber Line accounted for 75 percent of Allied bomber losses over Europe.
