Original photo of Dover area with the Chain Home Radar

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  1. morrisc8

    morrisc8 Under the Bed

    Original photos from my collection of the Dover area with the Chain Home Radar taken by the Germans from the coast of France. The red x are the barrage balloons.

    Information was critical in the Battle of Britain, which began 80 years ago.

    After detecting enemy aircraft, the RAF had as little as four minutes to coordinate a response. It did this through an ingenious network called the ‘Dowding System’. [ Chain Home }

    It was named after the commanding officer of RAF Fighter Command, Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding.
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  2. morrisc8

    morrisc8 Under the Bed

    Original photos from my collection of the Dover area with the Chain Home Radar taken by the Germans from the coast of France. This is a part of the 6ft long photos that they took of the coast area.
    Chain Home, or CH for short, was the codename for the ring of coastal Early Warning radar stations built by the Royal Air Force (RAF) before and during the Second World War to detect and track aircraft. ... Chain Home proved decisive during the Battle of Britain in 1940; CH systems.
    Keith
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  3. 8RB

    8RB Well-Known Member

    Am I correct in thinking that, at least until relatively recently (i.e. about 20 years ago) three were still standing, and now there are only two? And are they a monument?
     
  4. brithm

    brithm Senior Member

    Just to add to your Chaim Home Radar photographs entitled 'Wacht Am Kanal' think this came from Calvados Archive.
     

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  5. Blutto

    Blutto Banned

    I think there is now only one (transmitter 2) at the Swingate site, the other tower is not contemporary.
     
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  6. morrisc8

    morrisc8 Under the Bed

    A few more from the strip of photos from my collection. You can click on the photo to enlarge it. 2nd photo is of all the back of the photos, they were in one strip. Could that be snow on the hills?
    Keith

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  7. morrisc8

    morrisc8 Under the Bed

    January 1940 will always be remembered for the snowstorm and ice storm that struck the UK, so if that is snow on the hills its jan /feb 1940 that the photos could have been taken.
    Keith.
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  8. 8RB

    8RB Well-Known Member

    Is it listed or in some way protected ?
     
  9. morrisc8

    morrisc8 Under the Bed

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  11. James Harvey

    James Harvey Senior Member

    Langdon bay is where I work now

    we still have the old masks behind our station

    regards

    james
     

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