WWII Fan Bay plotting room bunker in Dover cliffs opens to public
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The Guardian reports the Fan Bay plotting room, a WWII bunker ordered by Churchill, opens to visitors from Friday via National Trust tours. The concrete bunker, buried four metres deep in the white cliffs of Dover, housed the first land-based computer-aided targeting system that controlled a gun battery used to attack German ships in the Channel. The bunker was secretly mothballed in 1957, rediscovered in 2017, and will be accessible through a hatch in a field. [1]
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- Second world war ‘brain’ bunker in cliffs of Dover opens to public
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