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Underground Operations Room. Uxbridge
This week, JOHN SNAGGE visits the bomb-proof underground operations room at Uxbridge from which most of the Hurricanes and Spitfires were controlled during the Battle of Britain. Here, 70 feet below ground, directions were given to 25 squadrons of aircraft defending Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire and all approaches across London. It was in this room that Winston Churchill watched the climax of the battle on 15 September 1940. Producer ROGER CLARK

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