Item DEAN 3/2/1 - Background research material, 1921-1953 and 1974-1976, on topics including RAF operations in World War Two

Air Ministry organisation charts 1921 and 1939; notes on Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote of Bristol, Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence's diary, 1938-1939; manuscript notes and photocopies relating to the strength of the RAF and the German Air Force in personnel and supplies and the progress of rearmament, including papers comparing the operational strengths of British, French and German Air Forces, 1939-1945; copies of Maj Gen Sir Hastings Lionel Ismay, Deputy Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet's papers 1945-1953 referring to the decision by Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill not to send any more fighter aircraft to France in Jun 1940; notes on campaigns in Syria and Persia in 1940-1941 and the battles of Alam El Halfa and El Alamein, 1942 with photocopies of figures for aircraft strength for the battles; typescript notes on 84 Sqn in Sumatra, Jan-Mar 1942 written by Flight Lt [A R] Gill; correspondence with KCLMA and Churchill College Cambridge regarding access to archives, 1974-1976; notes on the success of bombing campaigns; notes on the use of radar. 1 file