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MAIN TOPIC	SUB TOPIC(S)	SYNOPSIS
Radar… from little acorns	A short primer in radar theory	Topic 1
Four men of vision	The famous memorandum	Topic 2
The Daventry demonstration	Sound detection…a forerunner of Radar	Topic 3
After the Daventry demonstration	Robert Watson Watt The Biggin Hill Experiment	Topic 4
The prototype CH system	Chain Home…operational Chain Home, Low Flight of the Zeppelin	Topic 5
Work at Bawdsey Manor	Work at Bawdsey Manor Part 2 More about Orfordness Identification, Friend or Foe Progress with AI and ASV	Topic 6
Dundee interlude		Topic 7
Why Worth Matravers ?	The Battle of Britain and GCI The Skiatron The Skiatron Part 2 Achievements at Worth Leeson House Daily life at TRE Worth Social life at Worth TRE Worth, then and now TRE Worth, then and now Part 2 The Plan Position Indicator (PPI) The Plan Position Indicator (PPI) Part 2 The August 12th raid The German capability The Bruneval raid RAF Christchurch	Topic 8
Yet another move…Malvern		Topic 9
The Magnetron	The Magnetron Part 2 The Magnetron Part 3 The Tizzard mission AI at 10 cms AI and the night-time raiders Town detection	Topic 10
A.P Rowe and his 'Sunday Soviets'	Sequence of developments The GEE system H2S evolves from AI H2S evolves from AI Part 2 The Hamburg raids H2S evolves…H2X OBOE Rebecca / Eureka Submarine detection Submarine detection Part 2 Pathfinder Squadrons Radar for the Navy Gun-laying radar	Topic 11
Radar jamming	Fooling the enemy Radar on D-Day Radar on D-Day Part 2	Topic 12
Personal stories		Topic 13
Picture Gallery		Topic 14

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