Air warfare
Found in 1041 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 30 Sep 1935
Letter from Desmond Morton, (Earlylands, Crockham Hill, Edenbridge, Kent) to WSC, on relative air strength of Britain and Germany, stating that the number of military aircraft in the possession of the German Air Ministry and available for home defence in Britain were about the same, but that all of the German aircraft were new.
(Untitled), 18 Oct 1935
Letter from Samuel Haines, Haines & Co., Englewood, New Jersey, USA to WSC, on design of improved searchlights to assist air defence.
(Untitled), 28 Nov 1935
Letter from Lord Rothermere, Stratton House, Piccadilly, London to WSC, on the impossibility of anti-aircraft defence of warships, concluding that warships could carry no more that one hour's ammunition, and that "warships are doomed except for mid-ocean purposes", enclosing cutting from the "Daily Telegraph" on high altitude bombing.
(Untitled), 29 Nov 1935
Pamphlet "Volkerbund" the Journal of the German Association for League of Nations Questions No.144 on French Military Aviation.
(Untitled), 02 Dec 1935
Letter from Major-General Harry Pritchard, Ospringe, Faversham, Kent, to WSC, on the question of aerial defence.
(Untitled), 04 Dec 1935
Letter from Desmond Morton to WSC, on defence of warships against air attack.
(Untitled), 09 Dec 1935
Notes by WSC on British and German air strength [2 carbon copies].
(Untitled), 16 Dec 1935
Letter from Vice-Admiral Reginald Henderson, Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy, to WSC, on defence of warships against air attack.
(Untitled), 16 Oct 1936
"War cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Weekly Resume (no.40) of the Naval, Military and Air Situation", 30 May- 6 Jun 1940
"War Cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Weekly Resume (no.56) of the naval, military and air situation from 12 noon September to 12 noon September 26th, 1940", 27 Sep 1940
War in Three Dimensions, 1947-02 - 1953-05
"Wars are not won by evacuations", 04 Jun 1940
"Westward, look, the land is bright", 27 Apr 1941
White Papers, 1916 - 1919
Subjects include: the Royal Aircraft Factory; staff employed in government departments; the American Aviation Mission; the cost of naval and military operations in Russia from the armistice to November 1919; an investigation into the sinking of the Lusitania.
Whittle Associated Papers
These papers were deposited by people who knew or worked with Frank Whittle. The contents are mainly reports produced for Power Jets Limited during World War II.