Wings (44 page)

HMS
Arrow
,
356

HMS
Eagle
,
124
,
267

HMS
Empress
,
235

HMS
Furious
,
120
,
124

HMS
Glamorgan
,
351
,
356

HMS
Hermes
,
25
,
124
,
241

HMS
Hermes
(Falklands War),
1
,
3
,
6
,
345
,
349
,
356

HMS
Illustrious
,
243

HMS
Invincible
,
345
,
349
,
353
,
356

HMS
King George V
,
251

HMS
Sheffield
,
249

HMS
Snapper
,
236

HMS
Wasp
,
267

Holland,
326

Homer,
110

Houghton, Ollie,
189

Hull, George,
284

Hull,
82
,
218

Hunter, Hugh de Graff,
249

Hussein, Saddam,
363

hydrogen cells,
19

‘Immelman turn’,
75

Independent Force,
116
,
129

India,
151

Inglis, Donald,
108

Inskip, Sir Thomas,
171

intelligence officers,
274
,
289

Iran,
363

Iraq,
10
,
153
,
219
,
257
,
361

Irvin, Leslie,
61

Israeli air force,
269

Italian air force (Regia Aeronautica),
259
,
267

Italian campaign,
279
,
303

Italian navy,
243

Italy, Allied invasion,
279
,
303

Iveson, Tony,
222

Jastas,
101
,
113

Jellicoe, Admiral Sir John,
118

jet aircraft,
330

jet engines,
329

Johns, W. E.,
211

Johnson, ‘Johnnie’,
76
,
165

Johnson, Peter,
289

Jones, Ira,
75
,
107
,
127
,
133
,
198

Joubert de la Ferté, Philip,
28
,
33
,
35
,
39
,
45
,
47
,
159
,
168
,
275
,
325

Joynson-Hicks, William,
84

JPAD planes,
77

Junkers Ju 87 Stuka,
184
,
201

Junkers Ju 88,
294

Kajaki Dam,
10
,
358

Keegan, John,
314

Kempf, Friedrich,
95

Kennedy, John F.,
342

Kent, Robin,
352

Kenya,
257

Kershaw, Bob,
261

Kesselring, Albert,
267

Kiev,
341

Kiggell,
243

King, Cecil,
29
,
34

King, Vera,
275

Kingcome, Brian,
173
,
185
,
198

Kitchener, Lord,
40
,
56

kites,
20

Korean War,
336
,
348

Kosovo,
364

Krefeld,
286

Kristiansand,
179

Kursk, Battle of,
304

Laffan’s Plain,
14
,
27

Lamb, Charles,
243

Lang, Helmuth,
319

Larkhill aerodrome,
32
,
34

Lawrence, T. E.,
159

lay-off,
see
deflection shooting

Le Cateau-Cambrésis,
47

Le Havre,
52
,
277

Le Touquet,
300

leaflet-dropping,
177

League of Nations,
153
,
158

Leefe Robinson, William ‘Billy’,
87

Leggat, Elsie and May,
81

LeMay, Curtis,
340

L’Estrange Malone, Cecil,
54

Lewis, Cecil,
95
,
102
,
110

Lewis, Donald,
62

Lewis, Willie,
292

Lewis guns,
46
,
70
,
72
,
77
,
86
,
98

Libya,
10
,
20
,
303
,
364

Lichtschlag, Carl,
181

lifeboats,
254

Lincoln,
284

Lindemann, Frederick,
215
,
217

Lloyd George, David,
19
,
93
,
100
,
128
,
135
,
139

Lockheed C-130 Hercules,
347
,
368

Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk,
364

Lockheed Hudson,
235
,
238

Lockheed P-38 Lightning,
305
,
315
,
319
,
337

Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star,
331
,
336

Lodge, Roy,
323

London

air-raid warnings,
173

Blitz,
83
,
93
,
198
,
204
,
220
,
230

Olympics,
367

V-1 attacks,
321

Zeppelin and Gotha raids,
80
,
126

London Area Defence,
128

London University,
148

Longcroft, Charles,
142

Longmore, Arthur,
24

Loraine, Eustace,
32

Lord’s Cricket Ground,
224

Lübeck,
229

Lucas, Captain,
99

Lucas, Percy ‘Laddie’,
268

Ludlow-Hewitt, Edgar,
34

McClean, Frank,
23

McCudden, James,
30
,
42
,
49
,
59
,
65
,
133
,
142

McDonnell Douglas Skyhawk,
3
,
8
,
349
,
356

Macedonia,
133

machine guns, synchronization of,
74

Mackintosh, J. C.,
212

‘Mad Mullah, The’,
151

Magdeburg,
293

Mailly,
312

Malayan emergency,
348

Malta,
246
,
259
,
266
,
273
,
305

Mannock, ‘Mick’,
30
,
68
,
95
,
105
,
110
,
112
,
132
,
142
,
184
,
198

Mapplebeck, Gilbert,
45

Margate,
197

Marix, Flight Reggie,
52

Martinsyde biplanes,
66
,
70

Martuba,
266

Mass Observation,
210

Master Bombers,
311

Maubeuge aerodrome,
44
,
46

May, Wilfred ‘Wop’,
131

Mayfly
,
21

medical officers,
300

Menin,
67

merchant ships,
92

Mers-el-Kébir,
243

Merville aerodrome,
67
,
182

Mesopotamia,
133
,
151

Messerschmitt Me 109,
184
,
197
,
202
,
305
,
317

Messerschmitt Me 110,
178
,
198

Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe,
330

Middle East Command,
257

MiG 15,
336
,
338

Miller, John ‘Dusty’,
251

Ministry of Economic Warfare,
281

Ministry of Information,
212

Mitchell, Reginald,
164
,
168

Moffat, John,
246
,
249

Mogridge, A.,
254

Mönchengladbach,
181

Mons,
44
,
47

Monte Cassino,
305

Montgomery, Lieutenant General Sir Bernard,
270

Moore, Lonnie,
338

Moore, W. G.,
122

Moore-Brabazon, Lieutenant John,
62

Morane planes,
65

Morgan, David,
1
,
351
,
357

Morse code,
62
,
241

Mortain,
322

Moscow,
341

Msus,
263

Mülheim,
286

Mullers, Erika,
181

Munich crisis,
240
,
273

Munitions Ministry,
126

Münster,
182

Naples,
305
,
308

NATO,
335
,
341
,
368

naval aviation,
21
,
38
,
51
,
116
,
139
,
171
,
239
,
347

see also
Fleet Air Arm; Royal Naval Air Service

navigation,
150
,
177
,
209
,
214

see also
Gee electronic navigation

Neil, Tom ‘Ginger’,
205

Netheravon aerodrome,
42

Neuve Chapelle,
64

New York Herald Tribune
,
81

New York Times
,
124

Newman, Ken,
222

Nichol, John,
361

Nieuport planes,
32
,
77
,
96

Nigeria,
32

night-fighters,
293
,
298

Nivelle, General Robert,
101

No. 1 Engine Repair Section (ERS),
272

Normandy campaign,
309
,
313

North Africa,
210
,
257
,
270
,
279
,
309

North American F-86 Sabre,
336
,
338

North American P-51 Mustang,
269
,
304
,
319
,
337

North American T-6 Harvard,
211

North Foreland,
197
,
310

Northern Ireland,
343

North-West Frontier,
151
,
219

Norway, German occupation,
179

nuclear weapons,
327
,
334
,
336
,
340

Nuremberg,
297
,
310

O’Connor, General Richard,
259

Official Secrets Act,
330

O’Gorman, Mervyn,
20

Operational Training Units (OTUs),
226
,
231

Orde, Cuthbert,
189

Orley, Marian,
274

Ostend,
52
,
91

Oxford University,
148
,
211

Palestine,
133
,
151
,
257

Panavia Tornado,
361

Parachinar,
151

Parachute Regiment,
10
,
358
,
365

parachutes,
61

Parfitt, Herbert,
44

Park, Sir Keith,
193
,
305

Parliamentary Air Committee,
85

Pas de Calais,
174
,
198
,
313

Passchendaele,
72

Pearl Harbor,
207

Penfold, ‘Bertie’,
356

Penn-Gaskell, Leslie da Costa,
46

Peshawar,
152

Peters, John,
362

Philpott, Monty,
311

photography

aerial,
62

operational,
215
,
229
,
299

Polaris missiles,
341

polo,
151
,
161

Popham, Hugh,
240

Port Stanley,
1
,
8
,
346
,
356

Portal, Air Charles,
112
,
143
,
216
,
219
,
279
,
281
,
324

Poulainville airfield,
132

Pratt and Whitney engines,
238

Pretyman, George,
61

prisoners of war,
102
,
178
,
326

Proctor, John,
189

public schools,
28
,
96
,
110
,
142
,
144

Pudney, John,
9

radar,
168
,
183
,
194
,
202

airborne,
236
,
248

Blue Fox,
2

German,
286
,
293
,
298

H2S,
215
,
294