Item DEAN 3/2/11 - Press cuttings relating to the RAF and World War Two, including obituaries of senior personnel, 1961-1978

Air Ministry News Service bulletins, Sep 1945 issued to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Britain, Jul-Oct 1940; press cuttings on various subjects, 1961-1975 including the conflict over bombing policy between Dr Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell of Oxford, personal assistant to the Prime Minister, 1940 and Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, Chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence; press cuttings, 1974-1977 relating to the Battle of Britain, including reviews of books on the battle; press cuttings relating to MRAF Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton; press obituaries 1974-1977 of Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, ACM Sir John Wakeling Baker, Professor Lord Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Professor of Physics, London University, ACM Hon Sir Ralph Alexander Cochrane, ACM Sir Basil Edward Embry, Sir Horace Ernest Philip Wigglesworth, Group Capt Stuart Douglas Culley, AVM Forster Herbert Martin Maynard, Sir Donald Banks, Gen Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, ACM Sir Keith Rodney Park, Sir James Barnes, ACM Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt, Sir Walter Pretty, ACM Sir John (Walter) Cordingley; press cuttings of reviews of books about World War Two and / or the RAF including reviews of Winston Churchill compiled by Martin Gilbert (Jackdaw Publications, London, 1969) with copies of correspondence from 1976 between Martin Gilbert and Sir Folliott Herbert Sandford regarding Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's sources of information at the Air Ministry before World War Two; photocopies from and relating to Bodyguard of lies by Anthony Cave Brown (WH Allen, London, 1976); press cuttings of reviews of From apes to warlords [the autobiography of Solly Zuckerman] (Hamilton, London, 1978); press cuttings from 1977 and notes on ENIGMA and ULTRA intelligence; press cuttings, 1976-1977 relating to the German air raid on Coventry, Nov 1941 and the extent that ULTRA Intelligence could have been used in its defence; press cuttings and notes on Most secret war by Reginald Victor Jones (Coronet, Sevenoaks, 1979) and the BBC's broadcast 'The secret war', Jan 1977; press cuttings of newspaper correspondence relating to Stanley Baldwin, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, rearmament and the 1935 General Election. 1 file