Aircraft carriers
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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Correspondence with historians and former colleagues, 1965 - 1984
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WDVS 11/6
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 7th Lord Longford [earlier Lord Pakenham] on the decision to stop building aircraft carriers; Admiral Sir Varyl Begg, 1st Sea Lord, on the 1966 Defence Review, particularly relating to aircraft carriers; Sir Geoffrey de Freitas, Chairman of the Labour Party’s Defence Committee, on Davis's concerns about the future of NATO; John Moore, Editor of Jane’s Fighting Ships, on concerns about the state of the Navy; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar John.Also...
Dates:
1965 - 1984
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Naval memoranda, 1941-12 - 1943-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WDVS 2/9
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the current situation (in 1942), particularly relating to losses of merchant shipping, British naval weakness and the need to regain control of communications at sea; future naval building; the function of the aircraft carrier; the need to discredit the Nazis in the eyes of Germans; past and future strategy; concerns about Operation Torch [the Allied invasion of North Africa]; shortages of aircraft carriers; co-operation with shore-based aircraft; strategy in the Indian and...
Dates:
1941-12 - 1943-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.