Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom
On this headland, and the surrounding Downs in the years of the Second World War between 1939 and 1945, the men and women of the Allied forces helped defend their country. Here the Royal Observer Corps kept watch for enemy aircraft. Here also in those years the men and women of the Royal Air Force a
nd the Women's Auxiliary Air Force operated radar equipment. And here on Beachy Head too, trained the men of the Royal Naval Signals and the men of the British and Canadian armies. On this headland al
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