The Battle of Britain (15 page)

Rotterdam,
55
,
64

Royal Air Force (RAF),
xii–xiii
,
6–8
,
23
,
29–30
,
35
,
44–5
,
49
,
52
,
56
,
63–6
,
72–7
,
88
,
106
,
110–17

Royal Flying Corps,
29–30

Royal Navy,
6
,
63
,
108

St Pancras,
83

Schmidt, Josef ‘Beppo,’ Colonel,
114

Schulenburg, Friedrich von der,
18

Scotland,
13–14

Scunthorpe,
62

Sevastopol,
121

Shirer, William,
20
,
82

Shropshire,
66

‘Silent Column’ campaign,
14

Sinclair, Sir Archibald,
28–9
,
38
,
118

Slough,
83

Somaliland,
103–4

Somerset,
66

Somme, Battle of,
xi

South Africa,
15

Southampton,
62
,
91
,
98

Southgate,
83

Soviet Union,
22
,
34–5
,
103
,
107

Spain,
87
,
107

Spanish Civil War,
48

Sperrle, Hugo, Field Marshall,
48–9
,
57
,
111

Stalingrad,
120–21

Stanmore,
39–40

Stockwell,
90

Stumpff, Hans, General,
57

Sudetenland,
13–14

Surrey,
47

Sussex,
47
,
68–9

Switzerland,
106

terror attacks,
5
,
89
,
97–8

Tonbridge,
75

Trafalgar, Battle of,
xi
,
122

Trafalgar Day,
122

Treasury,
76

Trenchard, Lord, Marshall of the RAF,
118

Udet, Ernst, Colonel,
51–3

‘Ultra’
see
‘Enigma’

United States of America,
103
,
118–20

USSR
see
Soviet Union

Uxbridge (11 Group HQ),
74

Ventnor,
72

Wales,
13–14

War Office,
13

Warrington–Morris, A. D., Air Commodore,
41

Warsaw,
55

Wedel, Haffl von, Lt,
113

Wembley,
83

Western Front,
28

Wimbledon,
83

Wood Green,
83

*
includes 2 half-strength squadrons

**
includes 1 part-strength squadron