Armed forces
Found in 991 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 10 Apr 1915
Telegram from Vice-Admiral John De Robeck, Dardanelles, to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, report of work of the Naval Air Service, praising the work of Commander Charles Samson, and requesting that more aircraft be sent out [typescript copy].
(Untitled), 1944
Graph of weekly output of new aircraft (British operational types): 1941-1944.
(Untitled), 1944
Graph of weekly output of repaired aircraft (all types): 1941-1944.
(Untitled), 1944
Graph of weekly output of new and repaired aircraft (operational types: British and American): 1941-1944.
(Untitled), 1944
Graph of weekly output of new engines: 1941-1944.
(Untitled), 1944
Graph of weekly output of repaired engines: 1941-1944.
(Untitled), 1944
Graph of weekly output of new and repaired engines: 1941-1944.
(Untitled), 1944
Graph of weekly output of aircraft (British operational) structure weight: 1941-1944.
(Untitled), 1944
Graph of weekly output of total new engines (in terms of horsepower): 1941-1944.
(Untitled), 1944
Graph of output of aircraft in bomb load at 1,000 mile range: 1940-1944.
(Untitled), 1944
Graph of output of aircraft in bomb load at 1,500 mile range: 1940-1944.
(Untitled), 21 Feb 1945
Letter from WSC to Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz [Commanding General, United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe] thanking him for the album of photographs showing the work of the 8th and 15th United States Air Forces, and stating, "I can imagine no finer record of the great contribution which the Air Forces under your Command have made to the successes of the Anglo-American Armies since their landing in Europe". [Carbon].
(Untitled), Feb 1945
Letter from Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz [Commanding General, United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe] to WSC announcing his very great pleasure in presenting WSC with a "pictorial report on our strategic effort during the past year against the enemy's power to wage war" [report not attached]. [Signed typescript].
(Untitled), 01 May 1945 - 31 May 1945
(Untitled), 07 Jan 1935
Letter from F A Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), Christ Church, Oxford, to WSC, enclosing draft letter from WSC and Austen Chamberlain to the Prime Minister [Ramsay Macdonald], on the need for a Committee to discuss the problem of defence against night bombers.
(Untitled), 08 Jan 1935
Letter from WSC to [Austen Chamberlain], on draft letter from WSC and Chamberlain to the Prime Minister [Ramsay Macdonald], on the need for a Committee to discuss the problem of defence against night bombers [carbon].
(Untitled), 09 Jan 1935
Letter from Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain (58 Rutland Gate [London]) to WSC, informing him that he had signed and sent a letter [jointly from himself and WSC, on the need for an enquiry on air defence] to the Prime Minister [James Ramsay MacDonald], with a covering note.Chamberlain also says that the second volume of WSC's biography of the 1st Duke of Marlborough had formed his Christmas reading, and had fascinated him: "What a man!".
(Untitled), 13 Jan 1935
Letter from F A Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), Christ Church, Oxford, to WSC, on letter to the Prime Minister [Ramsay Macdonald] on air defence.
(Untitled), 18 Jan 1935
Letter from F A Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), Christ Church, Oxford, to WSC, on letter to the Prime Minister [Ramsay Macdonald] on air defence. Commenting that it was "hopeless the way Ramsay chops and changes", also that he had learned that Air Ministry was determined to "do everything to inhibit action of the sort we want".
(Untitled), 21 Jan 1935
Letter from WSC to F A Lindemann, (later Lord Cherwell), on letter from the Prime Minister [Ramsay Macdonald] on air defence. Describing Macdonald as a "hopeless twister" and stating that the only solution was a debate in the House of Commons [carbon].
(Untitled), 22 Jan 1935
(Untitled), 27 Feb 1935
Letter from Desmond Morton, (21 Queen Anne's gate, London SW1) to WSC, on letter from Air Commodore Peregrine Fellowes. Commenting that Fellowes had been one of the Air Ministry's experts on dirigibles, and that he might have a considerable personal bias towards "matters of air policy with which the Air Ministry would not be wholly in agreement".
(Untitled), 10 Feb 1935
Letter from Air Commodore Peregrine Fellowes (Chester Street, London SW1) to WSC, asking for meeting to discuss air policy.
(Untitled), 22 Mar 1935
Letter from James A Petrie, Estoril, Portugal, to WSC, on German military aviation. Stating that the Germans had 1500 new aircraft, and in time of war could put into the air 4000 machines. Suggesting that Britain should start to re-arm immediately, and that to pay for it, Super-Tax should be increased by 6d or 1s in the pound.
(Untitled), 07 Apr 1935
Letter from Robert Dele, Geneva, Switzerland (Geneva Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian) to WSC, on the German Air Force, drawing attention to an article on enormously increased consumption of aluminium in Germany in "Das Neue Tage-Buch" published on 6 Apr. Commenting that it showed that there was every reason to believe that the German Air Force was much larger than the British or the French.