| Date | Fully operational pilots |
|---|---|
| 1 June 1940 | 906 |
| 1 August 1940 | 869 |
| 1 September 1940 | 735 |
| 1 November 1940 | 673 |
Sources:
Table 1: PRO AIR 22/296, ‘Personneclass="underline" Casualties, Strength and Establishment of the RAF’.
Table 2: C. Webster and N. Frankland, The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany (4 vols, London, 1961), vol. 4, p. 501; W. Murray, Luftwaffe: Strategy for Defeat 1933–1945 (London, 1985), p. 54. For September, Webster and Frankland give a figure of 688 operational pilots.
MAPS
Index
Adlertagy 57–8
Advanced Air Striking Force, 6–7
air fleets see German air fleets
air intelligence
American, 115
British, 38, 105
German, 70, 72–3, 96, 113–14
Air Ministry (British), 3, 14, 31–2, 38, 46, 61, 64, 70, 76, 110, 118–19
air raids see bombing; Blitz
aircraft
British: Avro Lancaster, 54;
Boulton-Paul Defiant, 35;
Bristol Beaufighter 35, 95;
Bristol Blenheim, 7, 35, 44, 95; Hawker Hurricane, 7–8, 34–7, 52, 71, 73, 85–6, 145–7; Vickers Supermarine Spitfire, 8, 35–7, 52, 71, 73, 85–6, 97, 145–7
German: Dornier 17, 54; Heinkel He 111, 53–4; Heinkel He 113 (118), 53; Junkers Ju 87B, 53, 72; Junkers Ju 88A–1, 54; Messerschmitt Me 109 (Bf 109), 47, 50, 52, 97, 109, 111; Messerschmitt Me 110 (Bf 110), 53
Soviet: I 16 fighter, 35
aircraft production, 33–4, 50–51, 114–16, 145
Alexander, Harold, General, 117
Anti-Aircraft Command, 42–3
antisemitism, 92
Atlantic Ocean, 14, 87
Attlee, Clement, 105
Australia, 15
Bader, Douglas, Wing-Commander, 85
Balbo, Italo, 85
Baltic states, 22
Battle of the Atlantic, 107–8
Battle of Britain Day, 86
Battle of Britain Despatch, 119
Battle of Britain pamphlet, 118–19
Beaverbrook, Lord 118
Beaverbrook, Lord, 33–5
Bechtle, Otto, 61
Belgium, 48
Bentley Priory (Fighter Command HQ), 39–40
Berlin, 18, 21, 56–7, 78–83, 109
Bern, 18
Bessarabia, 22
‘Big Wings’, 85–6
Biggin Hill, 69
Birmingham, 79
Blitz, 66, 89–98, 106, 119, 121
blockade, 17, 23, 56, 63, 107–8
Blumentritt, Günther von, General, 108–9
Bomber Command, 4–7, 44–5, 63–6, 74–5, 78–81
bombing, 4, 55, 63–6, 79–82, 86–96, 104–5
Brand, Quintin, Air Vice Marshall, 39
Bristol, 79
Britain, 6–7, 14–23, 32, 34, 38, 50–51, 62, 78, 88–90, 98, 103–9, 120–22
British Army, 108
Brittany, 47
Brooke, Sir Alan, General, 44
Budapest, 105–6
Butler, R. Α., 11
Buxton, Charles Roden, 11
Cadogan, Sir Alexander, 12
Cambridge, 105
Canada, 15, 34, 113
Carinhall, 56–7
Chain Home radar stations, 40–41, 71–2
Chamberlain, Neville, 3–6, 9–10
Charlton, L. E. O., 89
Cheadle, 42
Chigwell, 83
China, 120
Churchill, Winston, xiii, 9–12, 16, 18, 29, 31, 38–9, 46, 74–6, 98, 103–6, 117–20
Ciano, Galeazzo, Count, 19–20
Clark, Kenneth, 14, 120–21
Coastal Command, 63, 65
Command of the Air, 97–8
Condor Legion, 48
Conservative Party, 10
Cooper, Duff, 43–4
Cornwall, 66
Coronation Chair, 10
Cowles, Virginia 15, 75
Crayford, 83
Cripps, Sir Stafford, 18, 35
CROMWELL, 93
Croydon, 83, 90
Czech crisis, 3
Daily Express, 94
Danzig, xii
Dean, Sir Maurice, 29
Devon, 66
Douglas, Sholto, Air Marshall, 118
Douhet, Giulio, General, 97–8
Dover, 72
Dowding, Sir Hugh, Air Chief Marshall, 8, 30–31, 37, 49, 61–2, 65, 76–7, 81, 86, 110–12, 118–19
Dublin, 18
Dulwich, 83
Dunkirk (Kent), 72
Dunkirk evacuation, 8–9, 15
Duxford, 86
Economic Warfare Ministry, 116
Egypt, xi, 104
Eire see Ireland
El Alamein, Battle of, xi
‘England-Committee’, 98
English Channel, 16, 27, 42, 55, 62–4, 67, 86
‘Enigma’, 42, 93, 115
Farnborough, 62
Fighter Command, 8, 30–48, 54–7, 64–5, 71–9, 83–6, 93–7, 106–18
operational strength, 32, 72–3, 112, 114, 116, 146
10 Group, 32, 71, 84
11 Group, 31, 67, 71, 74–7, 84
12 Group, 32, 71, 74, 84–6
13 Group, 32, 74
First World War, 29–30, 51, 113
France, 6–9, 12, 15–18, 21, 47–8, 55, 69, 77, 104, 117
Franco, Francisco, General, 87, 107
Galland, Adolf, 109–10
gas masks, 4
German air fleets, 48
German Air Force, 4, 27–8, 33, 42–55, 64–8, 75–9, 83, 86, 88, 98, 103–4, 114–17
operational strength, 32–3, 72–3, 116
German Army, 17, 22, 49, 108
German Foreign Office, 17, 98
German Navy, 16–17, 63, 88, 108
German-Soviet Pact (1939), 11
Germany, 14–17, 22, 33, 45, 47, 51–4, 64, 87–8, 95, 103, 120
Glasgow, 43
Goebbels, Joseph, 16, 19, 56–7, 80–82, 98–9