Item TULL 1/6 - Copy report on air operations by Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Jan 1944

Typescript copy of the 'Despatch on air operations (including a report on the expansion and development of the Air Forces in India), 21 Jun 1943-15 Nov 1943' by ACM Sir Richard Edmund Charles Peirse, Air Officer Commanding Air Forces in India, including strategic and tactical bombing and other operations of Bengal Command; operations of 222 Group, Ceylon, and 225 Group, Bangalore; provision of maintenance, signals and air transport; expansion of the Indian Air Force. With appendices of aircraft types and number; copy of signal from Peirse to ACM Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, Chief of the Air Staff [12 Nov 1943], on the need for latest types of Supermarine Spitfire for operations in the Far East due to the inadequate performance of the Hawker Hurricane; disposition of squadrons of the 10th USAAF; bomber, fighter and reconnaissance sorties flown in India and Burma; disposition of squadrons in the Bengal and Ceylon areas. 105pp