Second World War (1939-1945)
Found in 2715 Collections and/or Records:
Diary, 1944-06-07 - 1944-11-05
Subjects include: news of D-Day; V1 bombing raids; 481 battery moving from Hyde Park [London] to Kent; distress caused by Randolph Churchill; Randolph being in a plane crash (copy of his letter describing it enclosed); Churchill's pleasure in the exploits of MS's guns (telegram enclosed, Aug 1944); the 5th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
Also includes photographs of Churchill visiting MS's battery.
Diary, 1944-11-10 - 1945-01-07
Subjects include: visiting France with Churchill for Armistice Day; Churchill's seventieth birthday.
Diary, 1939-01 - 1939-12
Bound typescripts.
Diary, 1940-01 - 1940-12
Bound typescripts.
Diary, 1941-01 - 1941-12
Bound typescripts.
Diary, 1942-01 - 1942-12
Bound typescripts.
Diary, 1943-01 - 1943-12
Bound typescripts.
Diary, 1944-01 - 1944-12
Bound typescripts.
Diary, 1945-01 - 1945-12
Bound typescripts.
Diary, 1939
Diary, 1940
Diary, 1941
Diary, 1942
Diary, 1943
Diary, 1944
Diary, 1944-08-05 - 1944-09-29
Diary of Cadogan's involvement in the Dumbarton Oaks and Second Quebec Conferences in the autumn of 1944. Subjects covered include: discussions surrounding the formation of the United Nations Security Council, including negotiations over voting procedure and rights of veto for member states; interaction with the press and photographers; Cadogan's reaction to hearing his own voice on a Paramount film of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference; and comments on travel, dinners, and books read.
Diary, 1945
Draft chapter of the official naval history of the Second World War
Chapter entitled 'Defence against major warships, British dispositions and initial moves', never published.
Eastern Fleet, 1942 - 1990
Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91
Economic Section of War Cabinet Office 1939-42, 1939 - 1942
Papers relating to the Ministry of Production in World War II; the Board of Trade and HM Treasury, Marshall Aid, and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
'Events of the day', 1937 - 1944
Comprising a typescript of diary entries, comments, conversations, cuttings and letters mostly about the war. Also includes 'The events of the day' typescripts, and letters from Maurice Hankey about the proposal for a war cabinet, including a circular by LS Amery, 1940; and letter of thanks from Neville Chamberlain, 1938.
'Events of the day' and correspondence, 1940 - 1966
"Every man to his post", 11 Sep 1940
"Every man to his post", 11 Sep 1940
"Führer Conferences on Naval Affairs", 1947
The documents known as the "Führer Conferences" were among the German Naval Archives captured by the British and Americans at Tambach Castle during the Second World War. They are minutes of staff meetings between Hitler and his naval commanders and they were translated and published by the Admiralty in 1947.