Military Role
During the Second World War, the Royal Air Force built a radar station on top of Ward Hill 712 feet (217 m) during the battle of the Atlantic. The ruined buildings and nissen huts are still present. A Heinkel He 111, from the Luftwaffe's weather patrol, crashed on to the island in 1940. Its remains can still be seen.
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Famous quotes containing the words military and/or role:
“I’m not a military man, Captain. War holds no romance for me. The side effects are repulsive.”
—Richard Bluel, and Henry Hathaway. Major Hugh Tarkington (Clinton Greyn)
“The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)