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16 August 1940 Of the two main British fighter types participating in the Battle of Britain, the rugged Hawker Hurricane was notorious for its cockpit fires. The two main fuel tanks of this aircraft, positioned between the main spars in the wing roots, were completely unprotected by either armoured plate or self-sealing padding. Because of [...]
12-16 July 1940 At Duxford, the largest and best equipped RAF station in No. 12 Group, the Czechs arrived. A new fighter squadron was to be formed entirely with foreign personnel. The Royal Air Force needed as many trained aircrew as it could muster. No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron, as the new unit was to be [...]
Post-tweeting 1940
PM: "Provision should be made for an autonomous Jewish State, with reasonable room for expansion". Ministers to discuss http://ow.ly/6zdaX5 months ago
Lyttelton: Unless some action is taken in Palestine before the end of the war we are "risking
a considerable explosion" http://ow.ly/6zd1F5 months ago
Lyttelton: General Brett of US Air Service "bitterly critical" of "failure to hit the enemy in Libya", disorganisation http://ow.ly/6zdgD5 months ago
Lyttelton: Transport "far too constricted", telegraph and telephone lines "source of anxiety", mail service "very bad" http://ow.ly/6zcTj5 months ago
Lyttelton: "Many tired faces" amongst officers in Western Desert. Suggest they be exchanged for officers now based in UK http://ow.ly/6zcIn5 months ago
Minister of State Middle East, Oliver Lyttelton to report situation across the region at War Cabinet meeting at 1800 hours5 months ago
Eden: Ex-Shah of Persia "on his way to India or to a port". Suggestion that he should then go to Mauritius http://ow.ly/6y4LA5 months ago
Minister of Information to "bring pressure" to discontinue undesirable newsreel statements calling for a second front http://ow.ly/6y4HB5 months ago
General Dill: Kiev has fallen. Enemy claims capture of 150,000 Russians. But morale of garrison at Leningrad "high" http://ow.ly/6y4tn5 months ago
Cabinet Secretary: Total battle casualties Middle East (Western Desert, Abyssinia, Greece, Crete, Syria, Cyprus) 55,111 http://ow.ly/6y3Uw5 months ago
Commander-in-Chief Middle East denies "false air reports" from RAF responsible for loss of Cyrenaica province of Libya http://ow.ly/6y3FD5 months ago
PM circulates "splendid" speech by Canadian PM Mackenzie King: Nazi victory would mean "slavery would everywhere exist" http://ow.ly/6w73i5 months ago
RAF: 15 bombers crashed last night in UK owing to widespread fog descending unexpectedly when 145 of our aeroplanes air-borne5 months ago
Economic Warfare Minister: US trade freeze "has brought commercial and financial intercourse with Japan to a stand-still" http://ow.ly/6w6mZ5 months ago
War Cabinet congratulates Foreign Secretary on "the successful handling of the Persian problem" http://ow.ly/6v4X85 months ago
Eden: Persian Shah has abdicated. "Matters working out satisfactorily". Shah to be given asylum in "some British Colony" http://ow.ly/6v4Us5 months ago
PM: Possibility of helping USSR on southern front will "have to be examined". Would diminish supplies to Russia, Turkey http://ow.ly/6v66U5 months ago
General Anders: Situation in the Ukraine "very serious". Germans now "astride all the land communications to the Crimea" http://ow.ly/6v4LR5 months ago
Admiralty: There has been an increase recently in the enemy's mine-laying activities on the East Coast http://ow.ly/6v4Hd5 months ago
PM has met with General de Gaulle. General expresses "frank regret" for utterances "disagreeable to British ears" http://ow.ly/6tWzf5 months ago