HOW RADAR WORKS
nxiously standing around a giant map in the control room, Royal Air Force (RAF) personnel would spend each day watching and waiting, until eventually the call would come: “Raid incoming. Scramble all squadrons.” History is filled with turning points, and was no different, with many chance events, missed opportunities and strategic blunders contributing to Hitler’s plans for world domination being dashed. But among all the technical breakthroughs that helped Britain and the Allies emerge victorious, it’s impossible to overstate just how important radar was in the , the air war fought over UK skies in 1940. had planned to invade, but needed to gain air superiority. He sent wave after wave of his numerically superior Luftwaffe against the UK,
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