KINSEY, Gordon.: Bawdsey: Birth of the Beam. , Lavenham: Terence Dalton Ltd, 1983.

3rd impression. The History of R.A.F. Stations Bawdsey and Woodbridge. "When Bawdsey Manor, on the Suffolk coast at the mouth of the River Deben, became home to Robert Watson Watt and his team of scientists who had been working on the development of radio location, it acquired a place in aero-nautical history. For here in what had been the home of the Quilter family radio location. or radar as it was later to be called, was brought to the state in which it could be used as part of Britain's air defences, and here was built the first operational radar station....Kinsey has linked the story of Bawdsey with that of the nearby "crash 'drome" at Sutton Heath, today known as R.A.F.Woodbridge and a base for an American Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron as well as for the tank-busting A-10s..." Pp.205, black & white photos throughout. Paperback. VG. (Book ref. 37577)  £20.00

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