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Letter to Dean from RAF Grantham relating to the daylight raid on the Shneider factory at Le Creusot, France, Oct 1942 with a photograph of the board in the operations room after the attack; notes by temp Brig George Henry Inglis on operations in Crete, May 1941 relating to inaccuracy of the bombing, lack of supplies and low morale. 1 file

Typescript account of RAF operations over Yugoslavia 1941-1945 including sections on assistance to resistance movements; the Balkan Air Force; anti-Yugoslav Air Force links; references to Air Ministry records in the Public Record Office. With copies of 'Annex A-D', typescript accounts of the evacuation of Marshal Josip Tito with his General Headquarters Staff and British and Russian Military Missions; evacuation of 1000 wounded partisans from Brezner, Yugoslavia; report on Operation DUNN, the air evacuation of refugees from Slovenia; the history of Balkan Air Terminal Service (BATS). 1 file

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

Notes on MRAF Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton and typescript of an interview with Trenchard, 11 Apr 1934; 'Strength of operational aircraft in squadrons', typescript list, 2 copies; 'Number of squadrons and aircraft established in the Metropolitan Air Force and overseas commands, Sep 1939-Jun 1944', typescript list; 'Strength of officers and other ranks (RAF, WAAF and dominion personnel) by commands, typescript list; photocopy of article 'Science and the services' by Sir Henry Thomas Tizard in the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Aug 1946; photocopy from The Aeroplane, Aug 1954 on naming military aircraft; copies of articles on the aircraft 'Blackburn Botha' and 'Saro Lerwick'; photocopied extract from AVM Oswyn George William Gifford Lywood's record of service, 1957; memorandum from the Air Ministry regarding the possibility of a history of the Air Ministry being written and enclosing a list of monographs and narratives written by Air Historical Branch staff, 1963; photocopy of an article on the BE8 and BE8a, the British reconnaissance biplane used by the Royal Flying Corps from 1914 by J M Bruce in Air Pictorial, Nov 1962; typescript of a lecture by Dean to the Beaconsfield Royal Historical Society, 27 Jan 1973 on critical dates in the history of the RAF; papers relating to types of aircraft and to personnel in World War One and World War Two including booklet The Royal Air Force Museum, 100 years of aviation history (London, 1974); order of service for a thanksgiving service at Westminster Abbey for the 50th anniversary of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1974; extract from Aerospace magazine, Aug 1974 with an interview with ACM Sir Harry Broadhurst; note on Typex high speed cipher machine and transmissions and related letter from Ministry of Defence, 1977. 1 file

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

Pamphlets and lecture texts by Prof Reginald Victor Jones, professor of Natural Philosophy, Aberdeen University relating to 'scientific intelligence' and Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, Chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence and on the bomber offensive; typescript paper on 'The strategic air offensive against Germany 1939-1940' with comments by ACM Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt; photocopies of articles, 'Services required from the Royal Air Force for the field forces'(1975), 'Readiness for war-a study of some elements in the effectiveness of the air forces on the north east front, Sep 1939-May 1940' by Group Capt E B Haslam, Air Historical Branch, Air Ministry, 1975, 'The Royal Air Force and British military aircraft production 1934-1940', a colloquium paper by Sir Peter Gordon Masefield, Dec 1975; copies of papers on RAF casualties during World War Two. 1 file

Members of the Air Council and Air Force Board of the Defence Council 1918- (Air Historical Branch (RAF), London, 1973). Printed booklet

Photocopy of article describing a conversation between US Air Force Officer, Lt Gen Ira C Eaker and Dr Arthur George Bradford Metcalf, Chairman of the United States Strategic Institute and Albert Speer, Reichsminister of Armaments and War Production, 1943-1945 in which they discuss the effects of Allied air power on German production (Air Force magazine, Apr 1977). 5pp

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

Photocopied extracts from Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) concerning supplies for the RAF. With manuscript notes, 3pp. 1 file

Photocopies of correspondence, press cuttings, archive material (including Public Records) and manuscript notes relating to the career of ACM Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding of Bentley Priory; the Battle of Britain and Dowding's removal from Bomber Command in autumn 1940, including letter from Wg Cdr Robert Wright, Dowding's biographer on sections of Dean's manuscript of The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979) relating to Dowding; notes, Nov 1977 on Dowding and Dean's book by Dennis George Richards, official historian of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War. 1 file

Manuscript notes and photocopies from Public Record Office files from the Prime Minister's Office (PREM) including photocopies of correspondence between Neville Chamberlain, Churchill, Sir (Norman Fenwick) Warren Fisher, Kingsley Wood (PREM 1) relating to German air strength, the risk of an attack from the air, British aircraft production and air defences, Jul-Oct 1938; manuscript notes from (PREM 1, 2, 3 & 4) on bombing policy and aircraft production and index of other subjects covered, 1938-1943; manuscript notes from Public Record Office files from the Air Ministry (AIR) and the Cabinet Office (CAB) including notes on questions sent by Rt Hon Clement Richard Atlee to the Rt Hon (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister on the RAF in 1938. 1 file

Correspondence between Dean and Group Capt E B Haslam, Louis A Jackets, P R Wood, Air Historical Branch of the RAF relating to various papers written by Dean on RAF history and The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979) with comments by Haslam on the chapter on 'Coastal Command' and correcting minor points of detail. With text of a lecture by Haslam entitled 'Some highlights of RAF history'. 1 file

Correspondence between Dean and RAF officers, surnames A-H, including Wg Cdr D B Adams; ACM Sir Harry Broadhurst; ACM Hon Sir Ralph Cochrane; Sir John Rupert Colville; Sir Frank Cooper; Samuel Charles Elworthy, Baron of Timaru in New Zealand and of Elworthy Somerset; Dr (Anthony) Noble Frankland, Director Imperial War Museum; Sir Edward Gordon-Jones; V Adm Sir Peter William Gretton; AM Sir Christopher Harold Hartley; ACM Sir (James) Donald Innes Hardman. Subjects covered include the expansion of the RAF 1934-1938, the Munich crisis, 1938, chapters of Dean's The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979) on the Middle East, Bomber Command and on Coastal Command, ACM Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding of Bentley Priory, Wg Cdr Derek Ainslie Jackson and the Fighter Interception Unit. 1 file

Correspondence between Dean and RAF officers and others, surnames J-W including Lt-Gen. Sir (Edward) Ian (Claud) Jacob; Prof Reginald Victor Jones, Assistant Director of Intelligence during World War Two; Dr A A G Lewis; Sir Alexander Johnston; Cynthia Metcalfe; Sir Claus Adolf Moser, Cabinet Office; Kenneth Pope, Press Officer London Transport; D C Brech and J M Bruce, archivists, RAF museum, Hendon; Dennis George Richards, official historian of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, 1947-49; MRAF Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton; AM Sir Geoffrey Tuttle; Sir Richard Way, Principal, Kings College London; Wg Cdr Robert Wright, biographer of ACM Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding of Bentley. Subjects covered include chapters of Dean's The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979) on the Battle of Britain and on Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Travers Harris, the location of of Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, Viscount Thurso of Ulbster's papers, the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, MRAF Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, Sir Sholto Courteney Mackenzie Douglas. 1 file

Correspondence between Dean and Sir Folliott Herbert Sandford on personal matters and also relating to Dean's work on the history of the RAF; particularly Churchill and the pre war air expansion programme, ACM Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding and his meeting with the War Cabinet in May or June 1941, Prof Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Professor of Physics, Manchester University and his advisory role at the Admiralty during World War Two. With a memorandum to Secretary of State for Air, Philip Cunliffe-Lister Swinton, Viscount Swinton regarding the proposal for a second Parliamentary Under Secretary of State; photocopy of Sandford's appointment book / diary for 1937; Sandford's comments on Dean's text of The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979); request by Dean for information on Philip Cunliffe-Lister Swinton, 1st Earl of Swinton and typescript account of anecdote involving Swinton in 1956. 1 file

Correspondence between Dean and Sir Peter Gordon Masefield relating to Dean's The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979) and his tribute to ACM Sir Christopher Lloyd Courtney in The Times, 2 Nov 1976; progress on Masefield's books Catch the sunlight (unpublished?) and To ride the storm, the story of the airship R.101 (Kimber, London, 1982). 1 file

Correspondence between Dean and Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk relating to the raid on Dresden in Feb 1945 and to correspondence published in The Times on this subject between Robert John Graham Boothby, Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head and Dr Anthony Noble Frankland, Director of the Imperial War Museum. With typescript extract from The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979) relating to the bombing of Dresden, Feb 1945. 1 file