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Authors: Richard Overy
aircraft
British: Avro Lancaster,
54
;
Boulton-Paul Defiant,
35
;
Bristol Blenheim,
7
,
35
,
44
,
95
; Hawker Hurricane,
7–8
,
34–7
,
52
,
71
,
73
,
85–6
,
145–7
; Vickers Supermarine Spitfire,
8
,
35–7
,
52
,
71
,
73
,
85–6
,
97
,
145–7
German: Dornier
17
,
54
; Heinkel He 111,
53–4
; Heinkel He 113 (118),
53
; Junkers Ju 87B,
53
,
72
; Junkers Ju 88A–1,
54
; Messerschmitt Me 109 (Bf 109),
47
,
50
,
52
,
97
,
109
,
111
; Messerschmitt Me 110 (Bf 110),
53
Soviet: I 16 fighter,
35
aircraft production,
33–4
,
50–51
,
114–16
,
145
Alexander, Harold, General,
117
Anti-Aircraft Command,
42–3
antisemitism,
92
Attlee, Clement,
105
Australia,
15
Bader, Douglas, Wing-Commander,
85
Balbo, Italo,
85
Baltic states,
22
Battle of the Atlantic,
107–8
Battle of Britain Day,
86
Battle of Britain Despatch,
119
Battle of Britain
pamphlet,
118–19
Beaverbrook, Lord
118
Beaverbrook, Lord,
33–5
Bechtle, Otto,
61
Belgium,
48
Bentley Priory (Fighter Command HQ),
39–40
Bern,
18
Bessarabia,
22
‘Big Wings’,
85–6
Biggin Hill,
69
Birmingham,
79
Blumentritt, Günther von, General,
108–9
Bomber Command,
4–7
,
44–5
,
63–6
,
74–5
,
78–81
bombing,
4
,
55
,
63–6
,
79–82
,
86–96
,
104–5
Brand, Quintin, Air Vice Marshall,
39
Bristol,
79
Britain,
6–7
,
14–23
,
32
,
34
,
38
,
50–51
,
62
,
78
,
88–90
,
98
,
103–9
,
120–22
British Army,
108
Brittany,
47
Brooke, Sir Alan, General,
44
Budapest,
105–6
Butler, R. Α.,
11
Buxton, Charles Roden,
11
Cadogan, Sir Alexander,
12
Cambridge,
105
Carinhall,
56–7
Chain Home radar stations,
40–41
,
71–2
Charlton, L. E. O.,
89
Cheadle,
42
Chigwell,
83
China,
120
Churchill, Winston,
xiii
,
9–12
,
16
,
18
,
29
,
31
,
38–9
,
46
,
74–6
,
98
,
103–6
,
117–20
Ciano, Galeazzo, Count,
19–20
Command of the Air
,
97–8
Condor Legion,
48
Conservative Party,
10
Cooper, Duff,
43–4
Cornwall,
66
Coronation Chair,
10
Crayford,
83
CROMWELL,
93
Czech crisis,
3
Daily Express
,
94
Danzig,
xii
Dean, Sir Maurice,
29
Devon,
66
Douglas, Sholto, Air Marshall,
118
Douhet, Giulio, General,
97–8
Dover,
72
Dowding, Sir Hugh, Air Chief Marshall,
8
,
30–31
,
37
,
49
,
61–2
,
65
,
76–7
,
81
,
86
,
110–12
,
118–19
Dublin,
18
Dulwich,
83
Dunkirk (Kent),
72
Duxford,
86
Economic Warfare Ministry,
116
Eire
see
Ireland
El Alamein, Battle of,
xi
‘England-Committee’,
98
English Channel,
16
,
27
,
42
,
55
,
62–4
,
67
,
86
Farnborough,
62
Fighter Command,
8
,
30–48
,
54–7
,
64–5
,
71–9
,
83–6
,
93–7
,
106–18
operational strength,
32
,
72–3
,
112
,
114
,
116
,
146
France,
6–9
,
12
,
15–18
,
21
,
47–8
,
55
,
69
,
77
,
104
,
117
Franco, Francisco, General,
87
,
107
Galland, Adolf,
109–10
gas masks,
4
German air fleets,
48
German Air Force,
4
,
27–8
,
33
,
42–55
,
64–8
,
75–9
,
83
,
86
,
88
,
98
,
103–4
,
114–17
operational strength,
32–3
,
72–3
,
116
German-Soviet Pact (1939),
11
Germany,
14–17
,
22
,
33
,
45
,
47
,
51–4
,
64
,
87–8
,
95
,
103
,
120
Glasgow,
43
Goebbels, Joseph,
16
,
19
,
56–7
,
80–82
,
98–9
Goering, Hermann, Reich Marshal,
19–20
,
28–9
,
50–51
,
56–7
,
68
,
73
,
79
,
84
,
89
,
114
Groups
see
Fighter Command
Halder, Franz, General,
16
Harrogate Programme,
33
Hart, Basil Liddell,
11
Harwich,
62
Hawker Aircraft Company,
37
Hawkinge,
69
Heinkel, Ernst,
53
Hendon,
83
Hendon Air Show,
89
Hitler, Adolf,
9–22
,
27
,
50
,
56–7
,
78
,
87–9
,
99
,
107–10
,
122
Home Intelligence (British),
10–13
,
90–95
Hook of Holland,
63
Ilford,
83
Information Ministry,
14
,
94–5
,
106
,
120–21
invasion,
16–19
,
68
,
87–8
,
92–4
,
106–9
Irish Republican Army (IRA),
14
,
46
Italian Navy,
104
Jeschonnek, Hans, General,
89
Jodl, Alfred, General,
109
Joint Intelligence Committee (British),
13
,
92
Kesselring, Albert, Field Marshall,
48–9
,
57
,
111
King’s Lynn,
57
Kosovo,
89
Kroll Opera House,
19
Langdon-Davies, John,
90–92
Leicester,
57
Leigh-Mallory, Trafford, Air Vice-Marshall,
32
,
85
Liège,
45
‘Linatex’,
37
Local Defence Volunteers,
121
London,
7
,
35
,
43
,
47
,
55
,
78–87
,
90–95
,
98
,
117
losses,
72–3
,
86–7
,
96
,
116–19
,
147
Lufthansa,
51
Lympne,
69–70
Manchuria,
122
Manston,
69–70
Middle East,
34–5
Milch, Erhard, Field Marshall,
51
Mill Hill,
83
Ministry
see under Ministry title
Netherlands,
48
‘New Order’,
21
New Zealand,
15
Newall, Sir Cyril, Air Chief Marshall,
30–31
,
34
,
49
,
118
Newcastle,
62
Norway,
47
Observer Corps,
40–41
Old Kent Road,
83
Olympia,
39
Operation Barbarossa,
22
Operation Sealion,
19
,
22
,
27
,
56
,
79
,
87–9
,
108–9
Operational Training Units,
73–4
Ostend,
63
Park, Keith, Air Vice-Marshall,
31–2
,
39
,
62
,
67
,
70–71
,
74–7
,
81
,
84–6
,
110–11
,
117
Pas de Calais,
48
Passchendaele, Battle of,
xi
Pile, Sir Frederick, Lt General,
42–3
pilot numbers,
37–9
,
54–5
,
73–4
,
112–13
,
148
Plymouth,
91
Polish Air Force,
7
Polish Fighter Command squadrons,
38–9
Portal, Sir Charles, Air Marshall,
118
Quade, General,
27
Radio-Telephony Direction Finding (R/T-D/F),
40–41
Raeder, Erich, Grossadmiral,
16–17
,
27
,
87–8
Ramsgate,
19
Red Army,
22
Ribbentrop, Joachim von,
17–19
Richmond,
83
Richthofen squadron,
28
Romania,
22
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
120