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Found in 1041 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/190/10
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Graph of output of aircraft in bomb load at 1,500 mile range: 1940-1944.

Dates: 1944
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Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Graphs of Aircraft Weekly Output 1940-1944.
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(Untitled), 08 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/101-104
Scope and Contents Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC regarding military arrangements by the United States: comments on problems facing United States; comments on naval deployment in the ANZAC [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] region; comments on the strong Japanese position in the Pacific and its implications; describes plans to send American reinforcements to Australia, New Zealand and the South West Pacific; details arrangements to supply shipping to move two...
Dates: 08 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal telegrams.
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(Untitled), 14 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/165
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Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal Sir John Dill [Head of British Joint Staff Mission, Washington, United States] suggesting alterations to an Allied document on war strategy: suggests "essentials" should be an assumption of an offensive against Japan, an air offensive against Germany to relieve the Soviet Union, and British mastery of the Indian Ocean.

Dates: 14 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal telegrams.
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(Untitled), 16 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/171
Scope and Contents Telegram from Field Marshal Sir John Dill [Head of British Joint Staff Mission, Washington, United States] to WSC replying to comments by WSC [see CHAR 20/71B/165] on war strategy: comments on the security of Great Britain and the United States, the development of the American Pacific Fleet, the importance of the southern Soviet Union and Middle East theatres, the ineffectiveness of an air offensive against Germany from Britain and the impracticality of a land offensive in Europe; concludes...
Dates: 16 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal telegrams.
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(Untitled), 17 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/183-193
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt]: states that he has not yet heard from Australia and New Zealand but that in principle there are great merits resulting from the United States controlling the Pacific sphere and Britain controlling the Indian sphere; comments on the need for the American and British navies to work to a common strategy; describes British naval force in the Central Indian Ocean; comments on the need to co-ordinate all naval commands...
Dates: 17 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Personal telegrams.
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(Untitled), 19 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/20-21
Scope and Contents Telegram from the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] regarding the aircraft position in Australia: comments on his representations to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] regarding the need for a United States - Australian Air Staff and Planning Staff, and the willingness of Australia to place its Air Force under the immediate control of Lieutenant-General George Brett [Commander of Allied Air Forces, Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia]; states that President...
Dates: 19 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 20 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/36-37
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt]: accepts Roosevelt's proposals [on British and American commands in Burma, see CHAR 20/72/28-30] and has sent instructions to General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, India] and General Harold Alexander [General Officer Commanding, Burma, later Myanmar]; comments on plans for bombing U-boat construction yards, which has been held back by the weather; refers to the possibility of attack by long range...
Dates: 20 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 20 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/39
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Telegram from the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] to WSC: states that WSC will be advised as soon as possible about the [Australian] 9th Division; thanks WSC for assurances of support in the event of invasion; comments on the aircraft position in Australia.

Dates: 20 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 21 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/55-57
Scope and Contents Telegram from Sir Stafford Cripps [Lord Privy Seal] to WSC reciting his conclusions on the situation in the Middle East: states that "at present time neither our strength in tanks nor in air is such as to give any chance worth considering of a successful offensive"; gives details of tank and air strength; comments on the need for heavy bombers; comments on the view of General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] that there can be no offensive before mid-May; states that...
Dates: 21 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 21 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/60
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt]: comments on his loan of American shipping and release of the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth and the Aquitania for British use; suggests that a further 9000 American troops be sent to Iceland; expresses pleasure at the level of shipping of American personnel; expresses anxiety at the level of air provision for the Levant-Caspian front and asks for American light bombers and fighters to be diverted to the Middle...
Dates: 21 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 26 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/104-105
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Telegram from Sir Stafford Cripps [Lord Privy Seal] (India) to WSC regarding the defence of North Eastern India: states that the next few weeks will be critical for morale; warns that the result may be disastrous if Calcutta is bombed without any effective defence; comments on the desperate need for up-to-date fighters and suggests alternative means of obtaining these from Britain or the Middle East or Ceylon [later Sri Lanka].

Dates: 26 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 26 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/107-108
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to Sir Stafford Cripps [Lord Privy Seal] (India) regarding fighters for the defence of India: comments on the numbers of Hurricanes in India; states that nothing sent from Britain could affect the situation for at least two months; comments on suggestions for diverting fighters from Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] or the Middle East; refers to remarks by General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, India] regarding the inability of the Eastern Fleet to respond to a sea-borne...
Dates: 26 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 26 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/109-110
Scope and Contents Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, India, to WSC regarding the need for air reinforcements in India: states that the Japanese are likely to seize Burma [later Myanmar] air bases and will then be able to attack Calcutta and industrial Bengal [parts of Bangladesh and India] and stresses the need for a bombing force capable of attacking a sea-borne expedition against India; comments on existing reinforcement flow and suggests that consideration be given to the...
Dates: 26 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 27 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/119
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, India, regarding aircraft provision for India: refers to a telegram he has sent to the Lord Privy Seal [Sir Stafford Cripps, on fighter cover for India, see CHAR 20/72/107-108]; states that the Chief of the Air Staff [Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal] has telegraphed Air Vice-Marshal Douglas Evill [Head of RAF Delegation to Washington, United States] for American reactions; comments on present fighter aircraft...
Dates: 27 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 29 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/126-129
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] regarding bombing: states that bombing attacks are being made on U-boat nests and reports a successful raid on Lubeck [Germany]; comments on the policy of menacing U-boats in the Bay of Biscay and his keenness to add six bomber squadrons to this new Biscay patrol; comments on the need to bomb Germany and on a structural defect to the wing tip of Lancasters which requires the laying up of four squadrons; appeals that...
Dates: 29 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/13-14
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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] commenting on the heavy enemy air attack against Malta and British difficulties in providing adequate Spitfire reinforcements; asks that the United States aircraft carrier Wasp be used to take Spitfires from the Clyde [Scotland] to Malta and suggests the third week of April.

Dates: 01 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 03 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/41
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Telegram from the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt to WSC regarding his request for American assistance in transporting Spitfires to Malta [see CHAR 20/73/13-14] and commenting on the availability of the Furious.

Dates: 03 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 13 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/89-90
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Telegram from Sir Stafford Cripps [Lord Privy Seal] (Karachi [India, later Pakistan]) to WSC regarding the defence situation in India, particularly the air and naval situation and commenting on the need for heavy bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.

Dates: 13 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 14 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/96
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Telegram from WSC to the Lord Privy Seal [Sir Stafford Cripps] (Cairo [Egypt]) concerning the position of the Air Ministry with regard to supplying bombers to India.

Dates: 14 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 15 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/100-102
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] concerning "the grave situation" arising from the large Japanese naval presence in the Indian Ocean: suggests alternative plans for moving capital ships to the Indian Ocean; presses for American heavy bombers in India; comments on his meeting with the President's envoys and states that he is sending the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound] to see the President and Admiral Ernest King...
Dates: 15 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 17 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/115-117
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Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC regarding immediate British war needs: comments on United States Air Force suggestions for getting planes to India; questions the viability of a naval concentration in the Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] area using mixed forces and suggests that consideration be given to the temporary American replacement of British Home Fleet units.

Dates: 17 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 17 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/118
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Telegram from the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, to Harry Hopkins [Special adviser and assistant to President Roosevelt] for WSC containing several observations on the proposal to send American planes to India.

Dates: 17 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 17 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/120-123
Scope and Contents Typescript copy of letter from Vi Wellington Koo [Chinese Ambassador to Britain] to WSC containing the text of a telegram from Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-shek [Chinese Nationalist leader] to WSC commenting on his recent visit to Burma [later Myanmar]: comments on the scene of "desolation and disorder" in Mandalay; comments on the superiority of the enemy in the air; comments on the dangers of defeat in Burma and appeals for reinforcements of air power. [See CHAR 20/74/39-40 for WSC's...
Dates: 17 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 18 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/127
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Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC informing him of a proposal to hold a conference in Ottawa [Canada] in May to discuss the Air Training Programme and the renewal of the Empire Training Plan on an overall basis for the United Nations.

Dates: 18 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.
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(Untitled), 19 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/73/128-130
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, India: comments on fighter and bomber strengths in India and Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] and details reinforcements; comments on plans to build up a powerful naval force in the Indian Ocean under Admiral Sir James Somerville [Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet]; comments on the strategic importance of holding Colombo [Ceylon] and preserving the link with China; states that he is sending Wavell extracts of a telegram from...
Dates: 19 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Prime Minister's Personal Telegrams.

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