On This Day – 9th October

On the 9th October 1935, Robert Watson Watt sent a memo to the Air Ministry proposing that a network of stations be established along the coast using the newly developed radar technology in order to give early warning of incoming aerial attack. RAF Bawdsey later became the first link in this network of radar stations known as Chain Home which was used to give advanced warning of incoming German aircraft during the Second World War.

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