Radar and World War Two

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

During World War Two, British women were employed as operators of a top-secret radar system for detecting aircraft. The new technology had helped shift the balance of power in the air war with Nazi Germany. Laura Fitzpatrick talks to Margaret Faulds, who was stationed at a Royal Navy Air Station during the war.

PHOTO: Margaret Faulds in naval uniform during World War Two (Personal Collection).

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
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0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Cladie Aide.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:24.9	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds
0:30.9	you're little You're listening to the Witness History Podcast on the BBC World Service.
0:38.2	I'm Laura Fitzpatrick and today and taking you back to August 1945 and the end of World War II.
0:46.0	Scientists, British and American have made the atomic bomb at last.
0:51.0	The first one was dropped on a Japanese city this morning.
0:55.0	The Allies had finally succeeded enforcing a Japanese surrender
1:00.0	after dropping nuclear weapons on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1:04.3	20,000 tons of high explosives.
1:07.3	That's 2,000 times the power of one of the RAF's 10 ton bombs of Orthodox design.
1:16.0	Japan has today surrendered.
1:20.0	The last of our enemies is made low.
1:24.0	In Britain,
1:28.0	In Britain, victory in Japan was welcomed with celebrations in the streets.
1:35.0	I went over to Paisley Abbey where they were having a service of remembrance because it wasn't so much
1:47.2	remembrance or sort of saying, Hallehoo you, the war was over in the Far East.
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