Pen & Sword author and volunteer tour guide Dilip Amin is proud to announce the introduction of a new, exciting and extended two-hour tour, presented by him, at the Battle of Britain Bunker in Uxbridge. These new tours are aimed at those who want to know even more about Britain’s aerial shield and the role the Bunker played during the Battle of Britain.
Dilip is the author of the acclaimed book on the subject, ‘Enemy Sighted’. This is the story of the world’s first integrated air defence system and how the coalition of Hurricanes and Spitfires, Fighter Command’s Operations Rooms and Sector Stations, Radar Stations, Observer Corps posts, anti-aircraft gun and searchlight batteries, and balloon barrages, stood resolutely in the way of Operation Seelöwe, Hitler’s plan for invading Britain in the Summer of 1940.
Fundamental to its telling is the 11 Group Operations Room, today referred to as the Battle of Britain Bunker, and the people who worked there, deep below RAF Uxbridge. It was after visiting the Bunker that Churchill first uttered the immortal words, ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few’. Hidden underground, with its large map table and squadron display boards, and balloon and weather states, it is preserved as it was on 15 September 1940, the date celebrated as Battle of Britain Day.
So, prepare to be immersed … one moment, sitting next to Winston Churchill in the Bunker … and next baling out of a burning Hurricane fifteen thousand feet.
Tours currently planned from 12.00 to 14.00 on 10 August; 07 September; 06 October; 09 November. Please visit the Battle of Britain Bunker website to book: www.battleofbritainbunker.co.uk/
Posted August 4th 2024
