How Britain was saved by radar

Abstract

I was recently 60 feet underground in the museum attached to the old operations room of 11 group at Uxbridge, one of the nerve centres of the Battle of Britarn, staring at pictures of senior Royal Air Force officers like Sir Hugh Dowding and Sir Arthur Harris. Why I wondered, were there no pictures of scientists like Sir Henry Tizard or Sir Robert Watson-Watt? After all, it was Watson-Watt who in 1935 first suggested to the Tizard committee, which had been set up by the British government to evaluate scientific air-defence techniques, that radio waves could be used to detect enemy aircraft. No-one who reads this book on the history of radar during the Second World War could possibly to agree to the addition of those pictures of Tizard or Watson-Watt; it makes it quite clear that without radar the allies would have lost the Battle of Britain.