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Authors: Michael Korda

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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

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