Item BROOKE-POPHAM 8/16 - Report on lessons learned from RAF operations in France and Belgium, 1939-1940

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BROOKE-POPHAM 8/16

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Report on lessons learned from RAF operations in France and Belgium, 1939-1940

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  • 1941 Mar 17 (Creation)

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1 file, 10 items

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Typed 'Report of Committee to investigate war experiences', of which Brooke-Popham was the Chairman, on the lessons to be learnt from recent air operations in France and Belgium during 1939-1940, with recommendations for action, and comments on the report by Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, Chairman of the Aeronautical Research Commission, and AM Sir Arthur Sheridan Barratt, former Air Officer Commanding in Chief, British Air Forces in France. Also includes typed 'Notes on the air problem of home defence against invasion', by Brooke-Popham, and additional comments by AVM Bertine Entwhistle Sutton, Commandant of the RAF Staff College at Andover, Hampshire. 1 file, 10 items.

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Rhodes House Library at Oxford University holds correspondence and papers relating to Brooke-Popham's post as Governor and Commander in Chief of Kenya, 1936-1953, which were removed from the main body of the collection following its deposit at LHCMA.

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