Item DEAN 3/2/6 - Background research material, 1938-1945, on topics including the Air Ministry and RAF re-armament

Various papers including minute to Philip Cunliffe-Lister Swinton, 1st Viscount of Masham, Secretary of State for Air from Portal, Chief of Air Staff Apr 1938 complaining about supply of funds for air re-armament; summary of operations by RAF Home Commands 1939-1945; typescript notes recording a visit to General Headquarters, British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 20 May 1940; copy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of United States speech in support of extending aid to Britain and France, 10 Jun 1940; note on Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill and 'air parity', Nov 1941; manuscript notes on the Air Ministry in 1941 including notes on talk with the MRAF Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, Chief of Air Staff, 14 Aug 1941 regarding the supplies of bombers that would be required to defeat Germany; paper on the stages of British air re-armament, 1943; figures for merchant shipping losses, May 1943; typescript entitled 'The collapse viewed from within, the memoirs of General [Herbert Josef] Koller, the German Chief of Air Staff' relating to events from 14 Apr 1944 up to a few days after Germany's capitulation 7 May 1945; manuscript notes by Dean relating to typescript by Dennis George Richards, official historian of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, 1947-1949 regarding MRAF Sir Arthur Travers Harris' attitude to Operation OVERLORD [1975]; manuscript notes on Air Ministry files in the Public Record Office [1975]. 1 file