Key Information
Reference code
DEAN 3/2/7
Title
Copy Cabinet meeting papers relating to RAF operations, 1940, and related papers
Date(s)
- 1940 - 1976 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Photocopies of Cabinet meeting minutes concerning RAF flights over France, 15 May 1940-3 Jun 1940; photocopies from Grand strategy Vol.2, September 1939-June 1941 by Sir James Ramsay Montagu Butler (London, HMSO, 1957.) relating to the Battle of France and British air support to the French; manuscript notes from The war lords: military commanders of the twentieth century edited by Sir Michael Carver (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1976) relating to ACM Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding of Bentley and the date of the decision not to send any more fighter aircraft to France, May to Jun 1941. 1 file