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Chain Home Radar Network

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1939Date range
2Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1939

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill11 July 1939

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Twenty radar stations can detect aircraft above ten thousand feet.

Hugh Dowding Dowding, 1st1939

Uxbridge · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Completes a national radar network linked to Fighter Command reporting centres.

Names involved

Hugh Dowding Dowding, 1stWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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