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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War,

Episode 210, The Battle Before Britain, Part 2, Flying Blind.

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The Second World War would be a technology accelerator, with tremendous amounts of money

poured into a variety of technological innovations with the purpose of winning the war.

The innovations from the war years would have eventually happened either way, but the requirements

of the war brought them into the world and into operational use much sooner. But as we look back

from the modern day, how we interpret and understand the war is impacted by technologies that we have

easy access to that did not exist in 1940. There are some obvious examples of this, the internet,

smartphones, modern medicine, podcasting, of course. But the one we're going

to discuss today is something you may not think about very often. If you are listening to this,

it is very likely that within arm's reach, you have a device that will tell you at any moment

precisely where you are located on Earth to within a few meters of accuracy. This is just one of those facts that many people never even really think about.

But it's really pretty amazing, particularly in comparison to how difficult or impossible

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