d used its wits to realize, that like Blitzkrieg, it should have attacked the flank of Britain when their guard was at its lowest. Unfortunately, it was not to be so. Britain had the equivalent of a secret weapon in their arsenal for aiding them in their battle against Germany. They had an early form of radar, known as Radio Direction Finding. The southern and eastern coasts of Britain were lined with Radar stations that detected the presence of incoming aircraft and intercepted them. Germany also had a highly sophisticated system to direct anti-aircraft guns, but the method of coupling the radar plots to an interception system and thereafter directing the fighters was unique. Unfortunately for the Germans, they failed to realize the importance of radar in assisting the air force in their continued struggles to rein supremacy. The Germans foolishly undermined the abilities of the Britons to quickly gather information about incoming planes and then rely them to Group and Sector Operations Rooms for action. The Nazi wave of terror bypassed the radar stations, and unknowingly they determined the fate of this war. Some German observation aircraft had picked up sightings of radio masts on Britains shores. Unfortunately, the Germans were under the impression that the masts were used in the detection of shipping, and paid no further attention to them until they really know what they were. Had the Germans not overseen this fact, and targeted the radar stations as potential threats, the outcome of this war might have been extremely different. The Luftwaffe, due to their disorganization was put to a task that would demand expertise beyond any that Germany had. This task was codenamed Operation Sealion, and it called for the Luftwaffe to cross the English Channel, take out the RAF bases, and gain supremacy over the Channel. The Luftwaffe was totally unprepared for this task, giving the RAF a chance in which to succeed in holding the Germans off...
