![]() ![]() The first aerial bombing of England was in 1914 and continued through until 1918. The genesis of this is a complex story and and covers a long period of time - there are several books (see reading list below) which cover it in great detail, but for the present purpose it is useful to have just a summary of the main points. In point of fact there was also a third arm, a nation-wide installation of addition telephone lines by the General Post Office, itself alone a massive undertaking. In the modern era through mergers in the now electronics industry virtually all of the other companies involved became part of the Marconi group and therefore are included in this wiki. Among others Marconi was extensively involved in both areas based on its work on radio telephony during the First World War and its capabilities in research and engineering in wireless and television and management of large-scale systems. The solution was to bring science into the arena, and comprised two areas of technological developments - the new ability to detect the incoming enemy bombers and their fighter escorts sufficiently early together with the ability to then get the defending fighters into position in time to destroy them in sufficient numbers. This bears its name as being the brainchild of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding that enabled the Royal Air Force with more limited resources in 1939 at the start of WWII to defeat the intention of the much larger Luftwaffe to clear and command the skies over the English Channel and United Kingdom, a prerequisite to Operation Sealion, Hitler's invasion plan. ![]()
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