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100 years of the RAF
WaF plotters pictured at work in the underground Operations Room at HQ Fighter Command, Bentley Priory, in north-west London. A senior officer studies the unfolding events from the viewing deck above.
RAF Bentley Priory played a pivotal role during the Battle of Britain as Headquarters Fighter Command.
From July 1936 to April 1968, Bentley Priory served as the Headquarters of Fighter Command, and from where the Battle of Britain was organised by Sir Hugh Dowding.
From 1937 until 1940, Dowdings Operations Room was in the converted Ante room of the Priory until the underground bunker was opened. It was in the Operations Rooms that Dowding monitored the intelligence required for his vital decision-making in the run-up to the Battle.
*Some of these images have had some dodging and burning done and have been retouched to remove detritus and dust and scratch marks only*
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Credit: MoD/Crown copyright 1940
Media ID 15229941
© Crown copyright
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