RAF Beachy Head, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 12 relations: Air Ministry Experimental Station, Beachy Head, Chain Home Low, Cold War, East Sussex, Eastbourne, England, His Majesty's Coastguard, RAF Kenley, ROTOR, Royal Air Force, World War II.

2. History of East Sussex
3. Royal Air Force stations in East Sussex

Air Ministry Experimental Station

AMES, short Air Ministry Experimental Station, was the name given to the British Air Ministry's radar development team at Bawdsey Manor (afterwards RAF Bawdsey) in the immediate pre-World War II era.

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Beachy Head

Beachy Head is a chalk headland in East Sussex, England.

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Chain Home Low

Chain Home Low (CHL) was the name of a British early warning radar system operated by the RAF during World War II.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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East Sussex

East Sussex is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Eastbourne

Eastbourne is a town and seaside resort in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, east of Brighton and south of London.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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His Majesty's Coastguard

His Majesty's Coastguard (HMCG) is the section of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency responsible, through the Secretary of State for Transport to Parliament, for the initiation and co-ordination of all maritime search and rescue (SAR) within the UK Maritime Search and Rescue Region.

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RAF Kenley

Royal Air Force Kenley, more commonly known as RAF Kenley is a former airfield station of the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and the RAF in the Second World War. RAF Beachy Head and RAF Kenley are Royal Air Force stations of World War II in the United Kingdom.

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ROTOR

ROTOR was an elaborate air defence radar system built by the British Government in the early 1950s to counter possible attack by Soviet bombers.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

History of East Sussex

• 2017 Birling Gap incident
• Archdeacon of Hastings
• Battle of Beachy Head (1690)
• Battle of Hastings
• Battle of Lewes
• Combe Hill, East Sussex
• Davies-Gilbert
• Dumb Woman's Lane
• Eastbourne Lifeboat Station
• Fitzroy House
• HMS Holland 5
• Haestingas
• Hastings 1895 chess tournament
• Hastings Castle
• Headstrong Club
• History of Brighton and Hove
• Holmshurst Manor
• Itford Hill Style Settlements
• Kent and East Sussex Railway
• Kingdom of Sussex
• Litlington White Horse
• London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
• MT Sitakund
• Newhaven Seaplane Base
• Northeye
• Otham Abbey
• Piltdown Man
• RAF Beachy Head
• RAF Eastbourne
• RAF Wartling
• Rolling stock of the Kent & East Sussex Railway (heritage)
• Rye and Camber Tramway
• SS Oceana (1887)
• Senlac Hill
• Surrey and Sussex Junction Railway
• Sussex Archaeological Society
• The Bomb (play)
• The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic
• The Keep, Brighton
• Trolleybuses in Hastings
• Walter Gale (schoolmaster)

Royal Air Force stations in East Sussex

• RAF Beachy Head
• RAF Deanland
• RAF Friston
• RAF Wartling

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Beachy_Head