In this video I talk about Radar during the Battle of Britain and whether the Luftwaffe should have taken it out. While reading up on this, I also noticed that very little has been written specifically on Chain Home during the Battle of Britain except for summaries and overall descriptions of the Dowding System. It would be interesting to see an in-depth study in the future, as this topic might hold a lot of potential.

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- Sources
Anthony J. Cumming, did Radar Win the Battle of Britain, The Historian, Winter 2007

Basil Collier, The Defense of the United Kingdom, Chapter IX-XV

Horst Boog, Die deutsche Luftwaffenführung 1935 -1945

Ian Philpott, The Royal Air force Volume II, 2008

M. Kirby and R. Capey, The Air Defense of Great Britain, 1920-1940, June 1997

Patrick Bishop, Battle of Britain: A day-to-day chronicle

Richard Overy, The Battle of Britain Myth and Reality, 2004

Richard M. Trim, A brief history of the development of radar in Great Britain up to 1945, Measurement & Control, Volume 35, December 2002

Stephen Bungay, A Most Dangerous Enemy, 2000

TME 11-219, Directory of German Radar Equipment, April 1945

Historicengland.org.uk

Radarpages.co.uk

-Audio
Music and Sfx from Epidemic Sound

- Timecodes
00:00 - Intro
00:49 - Quick Summary of British Radar 1940
02:03 - Why did the Germans not...
03:11 - Chapter 1 Germans and Radar
08:36 - Chapter 2 Germans and Chain Home
14:37 - Chapter 3 Effect and Compromise
24:35 - Chapter 4 RAF Beachy Head
27:33 - Outro

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