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Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on anti-aircraft ammunition requirements.

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Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on allocations of ammunition used by fighters and bombers.

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Letter from WSC to Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso] on an investigation into the production of stabilized bombsights. [Carbon].

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Letter, annotated, from WSC to 1st Lord Simon [Lord Chancellor] asking to borrow Sir John Singleton [Lord Justice Singleton] for an inquiry into the production of stabilized bombsights.

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Letter from Group Captain Charles Anderson to WSC enclosing a detailed paper on the training of RAF pilots, and a suggested system to reduce costs.

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Summary of night-time operations for RAF Station at Waddington [Yorkshire], naming officers involved. [Typescript].

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Report of damage caused by bombing raid from RAF Waddington [Yorkshire] on Berlin [Germany].

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Letter from Group Captain Charles Anderson to WSC on bombing raid on Berlin [Germany].

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Letters from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Aircraft Production, earlier Max Aitken] to WSC tendering his resignation; with WSC's reply refusing to accept his resignation. [Carbon].

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Letter from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Aircraft Production, earlier Max Aitken] to WSC on air policy, advising dispersal of production. [Copy].

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Personal Minute M 427 from WSC to Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal [Chief of Air Staff] asking him to take a few days rest as so much depends on him and overworking will not help [copy]; with reply from Portal thanking him for his concern.

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, May 1945. Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chief Whip [James Stuart]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; "C" [Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service]....

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Telegram from Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] to WSC marked "Top Secret and Personal" detailing previous discussions and requesting information on the prospective rate of return of Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) personnel to Australia after the defeat of Germany, and details of the RAAF component intended for European forces of occupation and in the South East Asia Theatre.

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Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] marked "Secret and Personal" congratulating him, the Canadian Government and the Royal Canadian Air Force on the occasion of the formal end to the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan; and emphasising its importance in achieving superiority over the German Air Force.

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Telegram from WSC to President Harry Truman marked "Personal and Top Secret" reluctantly agreeing [to the possible use of pilotless bombers against German cities]; but emphasising the limited value of such action at such a late stage in the war and the effect of retaliation on London, indicating the level of losses to the Greater London area during the course of the war.

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Telegram from President Harry Truman to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that the "project concerning war-weary, explosive ladened aircraft" should not be taken further.Typescript.

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Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" requesting that WSC asks his Chiefs of Staff to reconsider their withdrawal of support for a project to use pilotless bombers against large industrial targets in Germany.

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Telegram from Mackenzie King (Prime Minister of Canada) to WSC thanking him for his message of congratulation addressed to the Canadian Government and Royal Canadian Air Force on the occasion of the winding up of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.

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Telegram from WSC to Head of the British Mission to Vienna [Austria] marked "Top Secret" stating that it is the policy of HM Government to support the United States' insistence on absolute equality with the Soviet Union in regard to air facilities around Vienna. Carbon copy.

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Telegram from WSC to John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia] marked "Top Secret and Personal" requesting he inform WSC if he accepts the enclosed plan for Royal Australian Air Force contribution to the RAF "Target Force" following the defeat of Germany; and gives priorities of release in terms of trades and duties.

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Telegram from Harold MacMillan [Minister Resident at Allied Force HQ, Mediterranean Command] to WSC marked "personal" hoping that he will authorise immediate British development at Hassani [Greece]; and asserting the need for Britain to have full rights at the airfield. Copy.

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Telegram from Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later Lord Avon] (San Francisco [United States]) to WSC marked "Important" and "Secret" asserting that it may be "wise" for the British Government to maintain a stake in Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; and that therefore they should stick to their proposal to re-equip the Yugoslav air force at least in part. Carbon copy.

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Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander [later Lord Alexander of Tunis, Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre] marked "Personal and Top Secret" passing on a message from WSC to Lieutenant General John Cannon [Commander in Chief of Allied Air Forces in the Mediterranean Theatre] congratulating him and the airmen under his command on their work throughout the war in the Mediterranean.

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, May 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: the Chiefs of Staff; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, August 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet].Subjects covered by the minutes include: British naval activity in Western Europe;...