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Minute by the Air Department, Admiralty, on prohibited areas for British airships. Includes note from Captain Murray Sueter [Director, Air Department] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven].

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Telegram from Admiralty to 'Commodore T' [Reginald Tyrwhitt], on air operations off the Belgian coast. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe] on providing naval support for air operations off the Belgian coast. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], on the desirability of a sweep southward by the Grand Fleet in conjunction with a seaplane operation, as the German fleet was concentrated at Wilhelmshaven [Germany] and their cruisers and battle cruisers were active. [Carbon].

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Telegram from the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], to Admiralty, on the proposed southward sweep by the Grand Fleet, stating that it would be unwise to move the Fleet in conjunction with a seaplane operation. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Admiralty to the French Ministry of Marine, Bordeaux, asking them to arrange for four naval aircraft and vehicles to be transported from Le Havre to Dijon [France] by rail, so that they could attack the German airship sheds at Friederichshafen. [Carbon].

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Telegram from the Admiralty to the French Ministry of Marine, Bordeaux [France], on plans to maintain aerial command of the area around Dunkirk. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Admiralty to Commander Charles Samson, [Naval Air Service] with orders to continue to assert aerial control within a 100 mile radius of Dunkirk [France], detailing his support and urging the importance of destroying airships and airship sheds, particularly at Dusseldorf and Cologne [Germany]. Initialled by Vice-Admiral Sir [Frederick] Doveton Sturdee [Chief of Staff] and WSC. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Admiralty to Commander Charles Samson [Naval Air Service], approving his proposals for the establishment of advanced moveable bases for aggressive action against Zeppelins, and warning him not to drawn into serious fighting against enemy troops, as his objectives are airships and airship sheds. [Carbon].

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Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the defence of the East Coast of Britain, pointing out the inadequacy of 4 cruisers, 74 destroyers and torpedo boats and 18 submarines for maintaining a regular patrol and outlining measures to improve the effectiveness of the coast watch, including the use of territorial forces and aerial squadrons. [Carbon].

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Telegram from C. in C., The Nore to Admiralty, confirming that he had ordered lights to be extinguished in Chatham and Sheerness Dockyards at 2000 hours,from 26-29 Jan, ue to special warnings of air attack [typescript copy].

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Telegram from Admiralty to Commonwealth Navy Board, on proposal for HMS "Australia" to serve as Flagship, with HMS "New Zealand" in a new battle cruiser squadron [typescript copy].

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Telegram from Admiralty to C. in C., The Nore on possibility of air attack, stating that work should continue at night, without interruption, and that lights should be kept burning until firing began [typescript copy].

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Letter from WSC to Marshal of the Royal Air Force 1st Lord Trenchard thanking him for paper on Bomber Command and defending bombing policy, but suggesting he overstated his case for an overall head of military strategy.

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Letter from WSC to Henry Nimmo [Chief Engineering Inspector, Electricity Commission] thanking him for drawing attention to electrical generating stations in Germany as targets for bombing.

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Letter from WSC to Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding advising that his memorandum on the Battle of Britain has been circulated to the Air Ministry and the United States military, on fighter strategy and development of new fighter aircraft.

Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to [Franklin Roosevelt] President of the United States, detailing secret military plans, reorganisation of command, and projected course of the war: Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to attack Cyrenaica [Libya], then advance on Tripoli; invasion of Norway has been planned as a cover; reports of German preparation for invasion of Britain over North Sea; seeks introduction of American troops to Northern Ireland; command. structure between the...

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Letter from WSC to Sir Charles Craven [former Controller- General of the Ministry of Aircraft Production] advising that Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman [Chief Executive, Ministry of Aircraft Production] will remain as Deputy to the Chief of Air Staff [Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal] as they work well together.

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Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Hankey on a suggested bombing campaign: a matter not "of principle ... but of ... available resources".

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Letter from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] with major points of joint strategy: expansion of shipping convoys against U-boat attack; increase of food imports in 1943; more American troops to Britain; increasing bombing, night bombing and using aircraft against U-boats.

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Letter from WSC to David Robertson explaining that an Anti-U-boat Warfare Committee is considering the need for specialist aircraft to protect shipping.

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Letter from WSC to Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal [Chief of Air Staff] advising against removing Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder [Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, RAF, Middle East] from the Middle East or Air Marshal Sir [William] Sholto Douglas [Air Officer Commanding- in-Chief, Fighter Command] from Fighter Command; suggests Air Vice-Marshal Douglas Evill as Vice-Chief of Air Staff.

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Letter and report from Peregrine Churchill to WSC on a meeting with Sir Stafford Cripps [Minister of Aircraft Production] about the photographic projection of engineering designs direct onto templates for aircraft construction; with acknowledgement by John Peck [Assistant Private Secretary to WSC].

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, January and February 1942. Some written by WSC when in the United States.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States]; the Chiefs of Staff; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, March 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chief Whip [James Stuart].Subjects covered by the minutes include: matters concerning the command structure, including...