Plaque on Watch Tower, Beachy Head, Sussex

This plaque commemorates the Observer Corps of the Allied Forces keeping watch for enemy aircraft between the years 1939 and 1945. Also during those years the men and women of the Royal Air Force and the Women's Auxiliary Air Force operated radar equipment. Also here on Beachy Head the men of the Royal Naval Signals and the men of the British and Canadian Armies trained. Also on this headland the men of the Home Guard and the men and women who manned the anti-aircraft defences. The plaque also commemorates the epic Dieppe raid in 1942, which was partly controlled by the radar on this headland. The plaque was unveiled on the 16 October 1949.

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