Bawdsey Radar Group

You are invited to the following talk by Phil Judkins:

Making Vision Into Victory

Personalities and Power Struggles in Building Radar, 1935 – 1941

Ipswich Library

Wednesday 14th May 2008 at 7.30pm

£3.00 per person

For tickets: Please send sae with cheque made payable to ‘Bawdsey Radar Group’ to

BRG (Tickets), 1 Whitehouse Cottage, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 9RJ

http://www.bawdseyradargroup.co.uk

[email]info@bawdseyradargroup.co.uk[/email]

07821 162879

The Ipswich area, Bawdsey, and Orfordness, can justifiably claim to be the cradle of radar, for research here was key to the nation’s defence in the Battle of Britain. But the true record of how Britain’s radar defences were built is one of violent disagreements, political interference, personality clashes between powerful, strong-willed scientists, and arguments with RAF commanders. Based on the latest research, Dr. Phil Judkins, Visiting Fellow at the UK’s Defence College, unfolds the story of how Britain constructed the world’s first radar-based defence system the way it really happened, with new and startling findings on how close Britain came to defeat.