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Air warfare

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 1041 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 30 Sep 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/37-39
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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.

Dates: 30 Sep 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Oct 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/87-92
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Letter from Samuel Haines, Haines & Co., Englewood, New Jersey, USA to WSC, on design of improved searchlights to assist air defence.

Dates: 18 Oct 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Nov 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/97-99
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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.

Dates: 28 Nov 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Nov 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/100
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Pamphlet "Volkerbund" the Journal of the German Association for League of Nations Questions No.144 on French Military Aviation.

Dates: 29 Nov 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Dec 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/102-105
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Letter from Major-General Harry Pritchard, Ospringe, Faversham, Kent, to WSC, on the question of aerial defence.

Dates: 02 Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Dec 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/107-109
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Letter from Desmond Morton to WSC, on defence of warships against air attack.

Dates: 04 Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Dec 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/116-128
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Notes by WSC on British and German air strength [2 carbon copies].

Dates: 09 Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Dec 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/244/130-131
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Letter from Vice-Admiral Reginald Henderson, Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy, to WSC, on defence of warships against air attack.

Dates: 16 Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Oct 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/259/71-75
Scope and Contents Letter from Desmond Morton, Crockham Hill, Kent to WSC, stating that the Civil Service proposed to give him a permanent post after 17 years "temporary Service", so that he could eventually draw a pension, and that he had named WSC as a referee. Also commenting on the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, reporting that the opinion of the Carlton Club was that SB was not going until "Death or the Coronation". Also that there was "trouble brewing aboun Anthony Eden (later Lord Avon), Foreign...
Dates: 16 Oct 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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"War cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Weekly Resume (no.40) of the Naval, Military and Air Situation", 30 May- 6 Jun 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/5/1-14
Scope and Contents Detailed summary of the war situation including: the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk including the effect of weather conditions, numbers evacuated, naval losses and attacks by German bombers; attacks by U-boats on seaborne trade; anti-submarine operations; German trade; overview of the military and air situation covering Norway, Italy, the North Sea and coastal operations, the bombing of Great Britain, attacks on Germany by Bomber Command, French and German air...
Dates: 30 May- 6 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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"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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/6/86-99
Scope and Contents Summary of events including: attempted landing at Dakar by General [Charles] de Gaulle; U boat activity in the North Atlantic and shipping losses; operations by German raiders; information about the disposition of German and Italian troops; events in Greece, Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], Bulgaria, the Mediterranean and the Middle East; air attacks on Germany (including Berlin) and on invasion ports in France and...
Dates: 27 Sep 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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War in Three Dimensions, 1947-02 - 1953-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/6/8
Scope and Contents Correspondence on the publication and sales of War in Three Dimensions, by Air Vice-Marshal Edgar Kingston-McCloughry [Chief Air Defence Officer, Ministry of Defence] and JEP. Correspondence is mainly with Kingston-McCloughry, but other correspondents include: William Hawthorne [George Westinghouse Professor of Mechanical Engineering] on the dangers of increasing reliance on atomic defence, particularly in the case of the Korean War (2); representatives of Jonathan Cape Limited (4),...
Dates: 1947-02 - 1953-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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"Wars are not won by evacuations", 04 Jun 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/140A/9-28
Scope and Contents Typescript copy of notes for WSC's speech on the fall of Belgium and surrender of King [Leopold] of Belgium; the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk [France]; the successes of the RAF; losses of men and weaponry; military development and the possibility of German invasion. Speech includes the phrase "We shall fight on the beaches . . . We shall never surrender".Carbon typescript copy with some manuscript annotations in ink [not by WSC] laid out in "psalm style" apart...
Dates: 04 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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"Westward, look, the land is bright", 27 Apr 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/150B/124-142
Scope and Contents Speaking notes for WSC's broadcast (27 April, BBC) on the war situation including: public morale; his tours of bomb-damaged cities; General Sir Archibald Wavell's [Commander in Chief Middle East] successes in Libya; German successes in the Balkans and British support for Greece; admiration in the United States for Great Britain; praise for troops from Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC); condemnation of [Benito] Mussolini "This whipped jackal"; the Battle of the Atlantic and praise...
Dates: 27 Apr 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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White Papers, 1916 - 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FISR 8/62
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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.

Dates: 1916 - 1919
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Whittle Associated Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WHTL AS
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1939 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.