And the trouble was the stations that they had set up around Great Britain could detect...
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And the trouble was the stations that they had set up around Great Britain could detect aircraft coming over the Channel, but you couldn't always rely on it, particularly with the Focke-Wulf 190s, they could fly very, very low, beneath the beam, and then make landfall
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And the trouble was
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the stations that they had set up around Great Britain
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could detect aircraft coming over the Channel,
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but you couldn't always rely on it,
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particularly with the Focke-Wulf 190s,
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they could fly very, very low, beneath the beam,
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and then make landfall.
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Movie Summary
During World War II, the British built or reinforced a series of structures consisting of over 26,000 buildings to form a line of defence against an expected German invasion. Rob Bell travels around the UK to learn their secrets.
