Museum
IWM Duxford
Historic fighter airfield turned aviation museum, with Battle of Britain buildings and flying warbirds.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to IWM Duxford, near Cambridge, follows Douglas Bader, the pilot who flew here in nineteen forty after losing his legs, and the tactic he pushed from this airfield during the Battle of Britain. It sets him against Keith Park, the commander defending London, in a quarrel over how fighters should meet the bombers. Listen near the earth-banked Operations Block, where this sector's fighters were plotted.
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