Read With Wings Like Eagles Online
Authors: Michael Korda
Tags: #History, #Europe, #England, #Military, #Aviation, #World War II
Mein Kampf
by, 28
plans to invade Britain, 4, 5, 8, 22, 136, 139, 152, 155–56, 235, 243, 270–71, 281, 284
and rearmament, 31
reluctance to attack, 78, 136, 144, 154–56, 198, 275
reputation of, 123
and retaliation, 27, 107, 153–55
rise to power, 48, 62–63, 67
Hitler Youth, 65
Hoare, Sir Samuel, 31
Holocaust, 121
Home Guard, 7, 122, 231, 264, 284
Hopkins, Harry, 134
Horne, Sir Alistair, 122n
Hough, Richard, 133
Houston, Lady, 51–52
Howard, Leslie, 52
Hyde, Leila, 263n
Iraq, RAF bombers in, 110
Ismay, Hastings, 110, 207
Japan:
intelligence activities in, 167
Pearl Harbor attacked by, 282
surrender of, 269
Johnson, Lyndon B., 23n
Jones, R. V., 237, 239
Junkers engines, 70, 72
Junkers Stukas, 78
Ju 52 transports, 135
Ju 87, 75–76, 80–81, 96, 125–26, 127, 143, 146, 171, 227–30
Ju 88, 25, 126, 142, 167, 175–76, 190, 193, 218, 225
Kennedy, Joseph, 123, 144n
Keough, “Shorty,” 145
Kesselring, Albert, 289
and bombing of London, 199–200, 247
and Eagle Day, 158
and estimates of RAF strength, 247, 250
and Göring, 171, 183, 187, 200
and
Luftflotte
2, 122, 158, 217
Keyes, Sir Roger, 109
Kipling, Rudyard, 21
Kitchener, Earl, of Khartoum, 112, 292
Korda, Alexander, 20
Korda, Vincent, 20
Kutuzov, Mikhail, 202
Laval, Pierre, 31
Lawrence, T. E., 59, 110
League of Nations, 27
Leigh-Mallory, Trafford:
and Bader, 181–82, 236, 265, 291
and big wing formation, 178, 179, 242, 252, 265, 266
detractors of, 243
and Dowding, 130, 149–50, 151, 177–79, 192, 236, 252, 257, 265, 266, 290, 291, 292, 294, 296
and No. 12 Group, 129–30, 144, 177, 179, 228, 236, 242, 252, 257, 289
and Park, 130, 177–79, 228, 236, 242, 243, 251–52, 259, 265, 276, 290, 291
personal traits of, 130
and support for No. 11 Group, 177–78, 242, 252, 257
Leopold III, king of Belgium, 108–9
Lindemann, Frederick, 110, 219
Lloyd George, David, 5, 6, 152, 154, 249
Local Defence Volunteers, 122
Loewy, Raymond, 49
London:
bombing of, 242, 245, 247, 258–64, 270, 271, 272–73, 274–75, 276–80
Buckingham Palace bombed, 272–73, 274, 278
decision to bomb, 198–99, 245, 246–50, 256–58
morale in, 249, 262–64, 272
and RAF Croydon, 197–98, 199
suburbs bombed, 205
Londonderry, Robert Stewart, marquess of, 5, 249
Lufthansa airline, 62, 66, 67
Luftwaffe
:
as airborne artillery, 64, 78, 126
aircraft of, 40, 68–75, 80–81, 146, 171, 235;
see also specific types
Aryans only in, 147
attacks from the north, 190–92, 271
attacks from the south, 192–200, 226–30, 241–42;
see also
Battle of Britain
aviation fuel for, 74–75
bases for, 12, 64, 77, 94, 129
bombing capacity of, 25, 128–29, 146, 183, 247–48
communication within, 166, 168, 187
creation of, 10, 13
defenses against, 13–14, 45, 47, 143–45
development and research of, 40
and Eagle Day, 157–60, 164–69, 171–74, 183, 187, 275
Göring as commander of, 9–10, 11–12, 63–64, 78, 80, 187, 241, 266–68
initial attacks on Britain by, 125–28, 156
and invasion of Britain, 134–36, 146, 155–58
and
Kanalkampf,
126–28, 135
losses of, 47, 93, 124, 127, 148, 156, 157, 169, 172–73, 175, 184, 191–92, 201–2, 208, 230–31, 235–36, 250, 255, 264, 266, 280, 281
night bombing raids by, 172, 179n, 237–41, 251, 270, 283, 293
organization of, 64–65
pilots for, 147–48, 276
poor intelligence data of, 157, 160, 166–67, 168, 171, 222, 227, 279, 288
preparation for war, 24–27, 30, 31, 57, 63–65, 121–22, 152, 157
previous successes of, 13
and rescue operations, 127–28, 148–49
roles of, 13
Rotterdam bombed by, 108–9, 166, 246, 247
and
Schnellbomber,
24–26
Schwarm
formation in, 81–82, 186
strategies of, 176–77, 217–18, 221–22, 227, 229, 235, 237, 241, 247, 274, 275–76
Warsaw bombed by, 166, 246, 247
Luxembourg, German occupation of, 121
Lysander reconnaissance planes, 101
MacDonald, Ramsay, 22n, 48
MacDonell, Aeneas, 194
Maisky, Ivan, 263
Malan, Adolph “Sailor,” 169
Mamedoff, “Andy,” 145
Martin, John, 280
Martini, General, 288
Matheson, Randy, 194
Mayne, Edward, 194
McIndoe, Archibald, 286n
Messerschmitt, Willy, 40, 66–74, 80
Messerschmitt Bf 108a, 68
Messerschmitt Bf 109, 26, 40, 58
in battle, 88–89, 90, 146, 184, 193
design of, 69–70, 72–74, 83
performance of, 81, 85–86, 87, 88, 248, 267–68
production of, 65
Messerschmitt Bf 110, 80, 146, 168, 184, 190, 193
Messerschmitt Me, 66
Milch, Erhard, 11–12, 13, 66–71, 134–36, 155, 268
Mitchell, “Billy,” 18
Mitchell, Reginald J., 50-56, 66, 69, 72n, 73
Mölders, Werner, 184, 186
Montgomery, Sir Bernard Law, 176
More, Kenneth, 180
Mussolini, Benito, 6, 31, 135
Napoleon Bonaparte, 165, 166, 202, 283
Nash, Paul,
The Battle of Britain,
189
Nelson, Horatio, 208, 274
Netherlands:
air war over, 76
German bombing of Rotterdam, 108–9, 246, 247
German invasion of, 13, 108
German occupation of, 121
Luftwaffe
bases in, 77, 94