Air warfare
Found in 1041 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), Dec 1941
Letter from Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso] to WSC reporting on debates in the House of Commons: speeches by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, Alexander [? A V Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty] and Sir Kingsley Wood [Chancellor of the Exchequer]; discusses the air attack on Brest [France] and the latest casualty figures.
(Untitled), 01 Feb 1941 - 28 Feb 1941
(Untitled), 01 Mar 1941 - 31 Mar 1941
(Untitled), 01 Apr 1941 - 30 Apr 1941
(Untitled), 01 May 1941 - 31 May 1941
(Untitled), 01 Jun 1941 - 30 Jun 1941
(Untitled), 01 Jul 1941 - 30 Jul 1941
(Untitled), 01 Sep 1941 - 30 Sep 1941
(Untitled), 01 Oct 1941 - 31 Oct 1941
(Untitled), 01 Nov 1941 - 30 Nov 1941
(Untitled), 01 Apr 1941
Telegram from WSC to Foreign Secretary [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (Athens [Greece]) asking for Greek views on the deployment of British Air forces from Greek aerodromes.
(Untitled), 31 Mar 1941
Telegram from WSC to Foreign Secretary [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (Athens [Greece]) with numbers of aeroplanes released to aid Greece.
(Untitled), 02 Apr 1941
Telegram from Foreign Secretary [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (Athens [Greece]) to WSC on Greece's agreement to allow the RAF to use Greek aerodromes in the event of a German attack on Yugoslavia, but stating that Turkey is unable to give the same assurance.
(Untitled), 15 May 1941
Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] on impending air attack on "Colorado" [codename for Crete][T179]; with reply from Wavell on operation "Scorcher" [codename for British occupation and defence of Crete] [T180].
(Untitled), 16 May 1941
Telegram from WSC to General William Dobbie [Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta] proposing Stephenson to lead coastal air fighting against German shipping.
(Untitled), 10 Nov 1911
(Untitled), [1914]
Note by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on seniority of officers of the Naval Air Service. [Hand-written].
(Untitled), 31 May [1914]
(Untitled), 28 Sep 1940 - 29 Sep 1940
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.
(Untitled), 20 Oct 1940 - 21 Oct 1940
Summary of night-time operations for RAF Station at Waddington [Yorkshire], naming officers involved. [Typescript].
(Untitled), [21 Oct 1940]
Report of damage caused by bombing raid from RAF Waddington [Yorkshire] on Berlin [Germany].
(Untitled), 21 Oct 1940
Letter from Group Captain Charles Anderson to WSC on bombing raid on Berlin [Germany].
(Untitled), c 1914
Letter from General Sir Charles Douglas [Chief of the Imperial General Staff] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the problem of recognition of friendly aircraft. Douglas states that he had issued orders to Commands not to fire on aircraft pending further orders, and gives a list of prohibited areas, where airships would be fired at if they did not make the prescribed signal. Douglas also comments on sending infantry to guard strategic sites against attack.
(Untitled), c 1914
Note by James Masterton Smith [Private Secretary to WSC] to the Director of Air Department [Captain Murray Sueter] on aircraft recognition by anti-aircraft batteries.
(Untitled), 28 Jul 1914
Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] on ship dispositions, also on the protection of magazines and oil tanks from "evilly disposed persons" and attacks by aircraft. [Typescript, initialled by WSC, and annotated by Battenberg].