The Battle of Britain (46 page)

743:
25

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR),
42

Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAAF),
42

Balloon Command,
59

Rubensdorffer, Hptm Walter,
144
,
148
,
149

Russell, Ian B. N.,
262

Rye,
144
,
147

S

Saul, AVM Richard E.,
43

Scandinavian invasion,
25–8

Schilling Roads,
21–2
,
39–40

Schmidt, Major Josef,
80–1

Schneider Trophy,
65

Schöpfel, Oberlt,
188–9

Schwarm formation,
78

Scoular, F/Lt John E.,
263

Sealand,
130

Sealion, see Operation Sealion

Sheerness,
145

Shipman, W/Cdr E. A.,
171

Sinclair, Sir Archibald,
43

‘Sitzkrieg',
20

Skånland,
28

Smith, S/Ldr A. T.,
139

Smith, W/Cdr Dick,
174–5

Soper, F/O S. J.,
23
,
161

Southampton,
146
,
155

Spanish Civil War,
77–8
,
124–6

Sperrle,
74

Sprick, Oberlt,
188

Spitfire,
65–9

first PR sortie,
58

Staffel formation,
81–2

Stephen, W/Cdr Harbourne M.,
263

Stoeckl, Oberst Alois,
147

Storrar, W/Cdr James E.,
263

Stuka (Ju 87) see under Junkers

Sunderland,
147

Supermarine Spitfire, see Spitfire

Support teams,
109–23

T

Tangmere,
130
,
149
,
151

Thom, S/Ldr Edward R.,
263

Thorney Island,
130
,
149

Thorogood, Laurence ‘Rubber',
176

Tuck, W/Cdr Robert R. Stanford,
35
,
263

Turner, Percival S.,
264

Typex,
58

U

Udet, General Lt Ernst,
76
,
91

Ultra,
59

Unwin, Sgt George C.
264

Urbanowicz, W/Cdr Witold,
264

V

Ventnor,
145
,
146

Villa, S/Ldr ‘Pancho',
264

von Bolternstern, Hptm, killed,
152

von Houwald,
140

von Ribbentrop, Joachim,
13

von Wechmar, wounded,
149

W

Walker, F/Lt ‘Johnny',
23
,
25
,
161

Watt, Sir Robert Watson,
115

Weather, July 10–Oct 31 1940,
209–46

Webster, F/Lt John T.,
264–5

Wellington,
22
,
40

West Malling,
130
,
148

Westhampnett,
141

Wever, Gen,
76

Whitstable,
151

Wight, F/Lt Ronald D. G.,
265

Wilhelmshafen,
21
,
39

Williams, F/Lt E. S.,
31

Winterbotham, W/Cdr F. W.,
56
,
59
,
117

Women's Auxiliary Air Force,
49
,
198
,
205

Woods-Scawen, Patrick P.,
265

Woolston,
146

Worthy Down,
148

Wurster, Hermann,
91

Würzburg radar,
80

Y

Y-Gerät,
58

Y intelligence service,
54–6

Yeovil,
158
,
159

Z

Zerstörer, see Messerschmitt Bf
110

RAF air crew pose self-consciously with their ‘tin hats' ‘somewhere in France'. The white flying overalls are a legacy of prewar days. Conditions at the French airfields were primitive to say the least
.

Shooting down a German aircraft was a rare event in 1939 and, as such, a cause of celebration. RAF fighter pilots and their ground crews cluster around a remnant of their latest victim
.

No. 601 was generally known as ‘the millionaire squadron', and when petrol rationing was introduced early in the war, pilots kept their cars running by buying their own filling station
.

A Ju 87B Stuka. The ground crew toil with the inertia starter: the handle turned a flywheel which, when enough momentum had been built up, was used to start the engine
.

The station in the Do 17Z for the bombadier was fully glazed with a series of small flat panels, or facets and, unlike earlier Do 17s, was bulged below to provide more spacious accomodation
.

A British ack-ack battery fires at night. Night firing was generally ineffectual, however. On the night of 15/16 October, 235 German bombers raided London – and the guns fired 8,326 shells to destroy two and damage two
.

A Dornier of 9/KG 76 on 18 August lies broken in an English field just outside Biggin Hill
.

Pilots and gunners of the ill-fated No. 264 Defiant Squadron play draughts between sorties. Posted to 11 Group at the height of the Battle, squadron casualties were so high that it quickly had to be withdrawn
.