QuickCheck: Was personal grooming equipment once used to jam a radio-controlled bomb?


SINCE the end of World War Two some 77 years ago, a story has emerged occasionally that sailors of the UK's Royal Navy once used electric shaving razors to jam the signal controlling German anti-ship glide bombs. Is there any truth to this, or is this a tall tale that has stood the test of time?

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