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Lincolnshire: World War 2 Military Relics Trail around Skegness, Lincolnshire Archived 29 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine 54°0′13.176″N 2°32′52.28″W / 54.00366000°N 2.5478556°W / 54.00366000; -2.5478556 ( Centre of Great Britain ) Centre of Great
A British soldier on a beach in Southern England, 7 October 1940. Detail from a pillbox embrasure.. British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion (Operation Sea Lion) by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941.
A pill box forming part of the southern section of the Outer London Defence Ring on the North Downs near Westcott, Surrey. The Outer London Defence Ring was a defensive ring built around London during the early part of the Second World War. It was intended as a defence against a German invasion, and was part of a national network of similar ...
The GHQ Line (General Headquarters Line) was a defence line built in the United Kingdom during World War II to contain an expected German invasion. The British Army had abandoned most of its equipment in France after the Dunkirk evacuation. It was therefore decided to build a static system of defensive lines around Britain, designed to ...
During the Battle of Britain, the defence of the UK's airspace was divided up within RAF Fighter Command into four Groups, each comprising several airfields and squadrons. [1] The groups involved, 10, 11, 12 and 13, saw very different levels of activity during the battle.
The most important military citadel in central London is Pindar, or the Defence Crisis Management Centre. The bunker is located five floors underneath the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Main Building in Whitehall, in the space of the older but similarly purposed South Citadel. [3] [4] Construction took ten years and cost £126.3 million. Pindar ...
Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II; Volunteer Training Corps (World War I), the British voluntary home defence force of World War I; The American Committee for the Defense of British Homes, donated weapons, which went to the Home Guard. International:
The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France, followed by the UK's Dominions, Crown colonies and protectorates on Nazi Germany in response to the invasion of Poland by Germany. There was ...