The Battle of Britain Bunker

The Battle of Britain Bunker is an underground operations room at RAF Uxbridge, previously utilized by No. 11 Group Fighter Command all through the Second World War. Fighter plane operations have been managed from there throughout the War but maximum extensively at some stage in the Battle of Britain and on D-Day. Today it's far run through Hillingdon Council as a historical past enchantment with connected museum. A new tourist centre above ground opened in March 2018. The Bunker is placed at RAF Uxbridge, not a long way from Uxbridge town centre and Uxbridge Underground station.

As the area of No. 11 Group RAF's Operations Room, The Battle of Britain Bunker changed into one of the key elements of the sector's first included air defence system. Often called the "Dowding machine", the machine related Fighter Command with Anti-Aircraft Command, Barrage Balloon Command, the Observer Corps, Chain Home Radio Direction Finding, and the intelligence services. Under the machine, these businesses worked collectively for the primary time so that it will reap one goal: the successful defence of the United Kingdom's airspace.