Enemy Sighted: The Story of the Battle of Britain Bunker and the World's First Integrated Air Defence System (Amin Dilip)(Pevná vazba) - diskuze

Enemy Sighted is the story of the world's first integrated air defense system and how the coalition of Hurricanes and Spitfires, Fighter Command's Operations Rooms and Sector Stations, Radar Stations, Observer Corps posts, anti-aircraft gun and searchlight batteries, and balloon barrages, stood resolutely in the way of Operation Seelwe, Hitler's plan for invading Britain in the Summer of 1940.
Dilip Amin provides a fascinating insight into their development and eventual operationalization. The system provided a recognized air picture, giving everyone the same information at the same time, much like computers linked through the internet do today, except, in 1939 there was no computer and there was no internet!
Fundamental to its telling is the 11 Group Operations Room, today referred to as the Battle of Britain Bunker, and the people who worked there, deep
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