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128. On training see TNA, AIR 20/335, RAF Wireless Intelligence Periodical Summary, 16 Sept 1940, assessing material on German navigation training courses. On the beams, R. V. Jones, Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945 (London: 1978), 96–110.

130. TNA, PREM 3/22/4, Sinclair to Churchill, 22 July 1941; Sinclair to Churchill, 13 Nov 1941.

131. TNA, AIR 41/46, ‘No 80 Wing, RAF: Historical Report 1940–1945’, 20–22.

132. TsAMO, f.500, o.725168, d.14, ‘Bemerkungen zum Einsatz der Luftwaffe’, 14 Nov 1940, 7–8.

133. Ibid., ‘Bemerkungen zum Einsatz der Luftwaffe’, 11 Jan 1941, 3; 8 May 1941, 3–4.

134. TNA, PREM 3/22/4b, ‘Radio Countermeasures’, Periodical Report 8, 25 Oct 1940. On the history of Trent Park see AIR 40/1177, ADI (K), ‘Intelligence from Interrogation’, 31 Dec 1945.

135. TNA, WO 208/3506, ‘X-Gerät’ interrogations, Special Extract 46.

136. Ibid., Special Extract 54, 11 Oct 1940 on London; Special Extract 52, 8 Oct 1940.

137. AHB Translations, vol 5, VII/92, German Aircraft Losses Jan–Dec 1941; vol 7, VII/107, Luftwaffe Strength and Serviceability Tables. Kesselring remark from NC, Cherwell papers, G27, Sholto Douglas to Lindemann, 17 Dec 1940, reporting a POW interrogation.

138. IWM, Milch documents, MD 62/5177, ‘Monatliche Ausbringungszahlen 1941’; BAB RL3/162, Lieferplan Nr. 18, 1 July 1940. See too Budrass, Flugzeugindustrie, 705.

139. BAB, RL3/350, GL Amt to Jeschonnek, 7 Mar 1941.

140. TsAMO, f.500, o.725168, d.527, Fliegerkorpsarzt, Fliegerkorps II, ‘Frontfliegerfahrungsberichte’, 29 Nov 1940, 1–5.

141. Ibid., f.500, o.725168, d.527, ‘Bericht eines Amerikaners am 23.10’, 7 Nov 1940; Luftflottenkommando 2, Operations Staff Report, 28 Nov 1940.

142. Ibid., f.500, o.725168, d.527, ‘Tagesbefehl: Reichsmarschall Göring’, 23 Nov 1940.

143. TNA, AIR 16/380, notes of a conference at the Air Ministry, 18 Oct 1940.

144. PArch, Beaverbrook papers, BBK/D/328, Note, ‘Balloon Barrages – Lethal Devices’, 28 Aug 1940.

145. Anthony Cooper, Anti-Aircraft Command 1939–1945: The Other Forgotten Army (Fleet Hargate, Lincs.: 2004), 68; Frederick Pile, Ack-Ack: Britain’s Defence against Air Attack during the Second World War (London: 1949), 144–5.

146. TNA, AIR 41/17, ‘Air Defence of Great Britain: Volume III’, 113; Dobinson, AA Command, 279–81.

147. TNA, PREM 3/22/1, Note for Churchill from the Night Air Defence Committee, 25 June 1941; Cooper, Anti-Aircraft Command, 74–5.

148. Pile, Ack-Ack, 172–3.

149. TNA, PREM 3/22/4B, Portal to Churchill, 5 Nov 1940; HO 186/391, Civil Defence Committee memorandum, 5 Aug 1940.

150. Donald Brown, Somerset Against Hitler: Secret Operations in the Mendips 1939–1945 (Newbury: 1999), 173–7.

151. TNA, AIR 41/46, No 80 Wing, Historical Report, 25–6.

152. TNA, HO 186/391, Camouflage Committee meeting, 20 June 1940; HO 191/1, Camouflage Advisory Panel, minutes of meeting 21 Oct 1939.

153. HHC, TSCD/41, Air Raids Committee minutes, 9 Sept 1939; Works Committee, ‘Camouflage of Concrete Roads’, 19 Mar 1941.

154. TNA, AIR 16/113, D. Pye to Dowding, 24 Apr 1939; B. Dickens, ‘Note on a visit to RAF Bawdsey, 17 May 1940’; AIR 20/2419, Sir Henry Tizard, ‘Technical Aids to Night Fighting’, 8 May 1941, 7.

155. TNA, PREM 3/22/1, Lindemann to Churchill, 2 Oct 1940; ‘Report of Meeting on Night Air Defence’, 7 Oct 1940, 3; AIR 20/2419, Douglas note, 8 Oct 1940; AIR 16/524, ‘Progress Report of AO C-in-C Fighter Command 10 May–18/19 June 1941’, 4.

156. NC, Cherwell papers, G174/5, D. R. Pye to Lindemann, 18 Nov 1939; G175, memorandum by the First Sea Lord, ‘Coal Dust for Camouflaged Coastline’, 9 Aug 1941; MHS, REDept, ‘Note on the Screening of Water by Coal Dust Filters’, 17 Apr 1941.

157. TNA, AIR 16/387, Air Ministry to Dowding, 14 Sept 1940; Air Council recommendations, 17 Sept 1940.

158. TNA, AIR 16/387, Dowding to Harold Balfour, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Air, 27 Sept 1940; minutes of meeting, 1 Oct 1940; Dowding to Churchill, 8 Oct 1940.

159. TNA, AIR 16/380, Dowding to all Fighter Command Groups, 9 Oct 1940; Director of Home Operations to Dowding, 18 Oct 1940; Dowding to Director of Home Operations, 4 Nov 1940.

160. TNA, PREM 4/3/6, Irene Ward to Bracken, encl. memorandum, ‘A weak link in the nation’s defences’, 3.

161. PArch, Beaverbrook papers, BBK/D/32, Dowding to Sinclair, 14 Oct 1940; Dowding to Sinclair, 9 Oct 1940.

162. Sebastian Ritchie, ‘A Political Intrigue Against the Chief of the Air Staff: The Downfall of Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall’, War & Society, 16 (1998), 83–104.

163. TNA, PREM 3/22/1, Salmond to Churchill, 5 Oct 1940.

164. TNA, AIR 16/622, Douglas to Portal, 6 Dec 1940; Portal to Douglas, 8 Dec 1940; Douglas to Balfour, 14 Dec 1940; Douglas to group headquarters, Fighter Command, 30 Jan 1941.