With Wings Like Eagles (37 page)

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