The Battle of Britain

by Richard Overy

  Labour Party, 10, 105

  Langdon-Davies, John, 90–92

  Leicester, 57

  Leigh-Mallory, Trafford, Air Vice-Marshall, 32, 85

  Liberal Party, 10, 29

  Liège, 45

  ‘Linatex’, 37

  Liverpool, 43, 62, 79

  Lloyd-George, David, 9, 11

  Local Defence Volunteers, 121

  London, 7, 35, 43, 47, 55, 78–87, 90–95, 98, 117

  losses, 72–3, 86–7, 96, 116–19, 147

  Lufthansa, 51

  Lympne, 69–70

  Manchuria, 122

  Manston, 69–70

  Mediterranean, 87, 104, 107

  Middle East, 34–5

  Milch, Erhard, Field Marshall, 51

  Mill Hill, 83

  Ministry see under Ministry title

  Moscow, 35, 121

  Mussolini, Benito, 87, 107

  Netherlands, 48

  ‘New Order’, 21

  New Zealand, 15

  Newall, Sir Cyril, Air Chief Marshall, 30–31, 34, 49, 118

  Newcastle, 62

  Nicolson, Harold, 75, 103, 105

  Normandy, Battle of, xi, 109

  Norway, 47

  Observer Corps, 40–41

  Old Kent Road, 83

  Olympia, 39

  Operation Barbarossa, 22

  Operation Sealion, 19, 22, 27, 56, 79, 87–9, 108–9

  Operational Training Units, 73–4

  Orwell, George, 92, 117, 122

  Ostend, 63

  Park, Keith, Air Vice-Marshall, 31–2, 39, 62, 67, 70–71, 74–7, 81, 84–6, 110–11, 117

  Pas de Calais, 48

  Passchendaele, Battle of, xi

  Pile, Sir Frederick, Lt General, 42–3

  pilot numbers, 37–9, 54–5, 73–4, 112–13, 148

  Plymouth, 91

  poison gas, 46–7, 105–6

  Poland, 3, 6, 55

  Polish Air Force, 7

  Polish Fighter Command squadrons, 38–9

  Portal, Sir Charles, Air Marshall, 118

  Quade, General, 27

  radar (RDF), 4, 40–42, 69, 72, 84

  Radio-Telephony Direction Finding (R/T-D/F), 40–41

  Raeder, Erich, Grossadmiral, 16–17, 27, 87–8

  Ramsgate, 19

  Red Army, 22

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 17–19

  Richmond, 83

  Richthofen squadron, 28

  Romania, 22

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 120

  Rotterdam, 55, 64

  Royal Air Force (RAF), xii–xiii, 6–8, 23, 29–30, 35, 44–5, 49, 52, 56, 63–6, 72–7, 88, 106, 110–17

  Royal Flying Corps, 29–30

  Royal Navy, 6, 63, 108

  St Pancras, 83

  Schmidt, Josef ‘Beppo,’ Colonel, 114

  Schulenburg, Friedrich von der, 18

  Scotland, 13–14

  Scunthorpe, 62

  Sevastopol, 121

  Shirer, William, 20, 82

  Shropshire, 66

  ‘Silent Column’ campaign, 14

  Sinclair, Sir Archibald, 28–9, 38, 118

  Slough, 83

  Somaliland, 103–4

  Somerset, 66

  Somme, Battle of, xi

  South Africa, 15

  Southampton, 62, 91, 98

  Southgate, 83

  Soviet Union, 22, 34–5, 103, 107

  Spain, 87, 107

  Spanish Civil War, 48

  Sperrle, Hugo, Field Marshall, 48–9, 57, 111

  Stalingrad, 120–21

  Stanmore, 39–40

  Stockwell, 90

  Stumpff, Hans, General, 57

  Sudetenland, 13–14

  Surrey, 47

  Sussex, 47, 68–9

  Switzerland, 106

  terror attacks, 5, 89, 97–8

  Tonbridge, 75

  Trafalgar, Battle of, xi, 122

  Trafalgar Day, 122

  Treasury, 76

  Trenchard, Lord, Marshall of the RAF, 118

  Udet, Ernst, Colonel, 51–3

  ‘Ultra’ see ‘Enigma’

  United States of America, 103, 118–20

  USSR see Soviet Union

  Uxbridge (11 Group HQ), 74

  Ventnor, 72

  Wales, 13–14

  War Office, 13

  Warrington–Morris, A. D., Air Commodore, 41

  Warsaw, 55

  Wedel, Haffl von, Lt, 113

  Wembley, 83

  Western Front, 28

  Wimbledon, 83

  Wood Green, 83

  *includes 2 half-strength squadrons

  **includes 1 part-strength squadron