Air warfare
Found in 1041 Collections and/or Records:
Air Defence of the UK, 1988
"Air Raids Committee: Minutes of First Meeting", 01 Oct 1917
Minutes of ARC including: the committee's terms of reference to investigate replacement of guns used for home defence and to make recommendations on counter-attacks; shortage of ammunition; repairs to guns; the possibility of attacking enemy submarines at Bremen [Germany], or at Emden [Germany]; use of floating platforms and Handley-Page aircraft; and attacks on German munitions factories. Includes an appendix on offensive bombing operations from seaplane carriers.Typescript.
Arthur Campbell Beevor: Correspondence and Papers
Articles, memoranda, reviews, 1947-04 - 1955-07
"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material, 1948 - 1950
Notes on the Royal Air Force and French air force, September 1939-June 1940.
Board of Inventions and Research: "Report of proceedings to Dec. 1918. Minutes of General meetings, Central Committee and panel, Section 1", 1915 - 1918
Reports on aeronautics.
Bryant Thomas Shelley collection, 1926 - 1936
Includes: 'English Task' notebook, 1926, compiled presumably during the early stages of RAF training or before leaving school, including large collection of dried four leaf clovers; three RAF log books covering the period January 1927 to March 1936; small wooden hinged box made by Fl. Lt. Shelley for his mother from an aircraft propeller (with brief biographical notes regarding his training at Cranwell, 1927-30, beneath).
Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers, 1908 - 1910
Subjects include: the military needs of the Empire; the employment of the army if Germany attacked France; the Imperial Conference on defence; investigations into the organisation of the Home Fleet, small craft and destroyers and war plans; responsibilities of the navy and army for defence of the Suez Canal [Egypt]; the progress of aeronautics in various countries.
Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers, 1912
Subjects include: treatment of neutral and enemy merchant ships in time of war; airship policy; trading with the enemy; the Air Committee; armaments of defended ports; provision of long range guns; the strength of the infantry garrison at Hong Kong.
Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers, 1913
Subjects include: control of aircraft; military conditions governing an attack on Hong Kong; treatment of neutral or enemy merchant ships during a time of war; the maintenance of overseas commerce in time of war; press and postal censorship in time of war.
Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers, 1913
Subjects include: the maintenance of overseas commerce in time of war; naval policy in the Pacific; airship navigation; control of aircraft; press and postal censorship in time of war; treatment of neutral vessels in British ports; an attack on Britain from overseas; the fixed defences of west coast ports; treatment of neutral and enemy merchant ships in time of war; preparation of defence schemes for Australia; representation of the dominions on the Committee of Imperial Defence.
Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers, 1914
Subjects include: the Royal Flying Corps; coastal defences; defence of the Humber; the establishment of radiotelegraphic communication between inland stations; overseas attack; the Channel Tunnel scheme; support of customs and excise in the Orkneys, Shetlands and Scilly Islands in time of war; insurance of British shipping in time of war.
"Every man to his post", 11 Sep 1940
"Every man to his post", 11 Sep 1940
"Give us the tools", 9 Feb 1941
International Air Police Force, 1933
Speaking notes for ELS's speech in Parliament on the low prestige of the League of Nations and the feasibility of an international air force controlled by the League.