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Naval Air Operations |
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Combined Operations |
| 3 |
Autobiography "When the Rain's Before the Wind" |
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HMS Suffolk: Letters of Proceedings (Copies) |
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The Papers of Captain Robert Ellis
| Title |
Autobiography "When the Rain's Before the Wind" |
| Reference |
ELLS 3 |
| Covering Dates |
1917–1948 |
| Extent and Medium |
3 files |
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| Content and context |
Thirty-one chapters and twenty-four appendices. |
| Churchill/ELLS 3 contains: |
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Chapters 1 to 23. Chapter 1, 1917-1926; Chapter 2: The Royal Air Force School of Naval Cooperation; Chapter 3: 1928-1931; Chapter 4: Staff training and duties, 1932-1934; Chapter 5: China Station, 1935-1937; Chapter 6: Admiralty organisation relative to the naval responsibilities for flying at sea; Chapter 7: The bombs versus battleships controversy; Chapter 8: The new, 1937, status of the Fleet Air Arm; Chapter 9: Some factors and events relating to Naval Air personnel, 1937-1941; Chapter 10: Naval air stations; Chapter 11: Naval aircraft developments, 1937-1941; Chapter 12: Aircraft torpedo production requirements; Chapter 13: Other armament and equipment for fleet aircraft, except anti-submarine; Chapter 14: The anti-submarine weapons for fleet aircraft; Chapter 15: Science, committees, and naval aviation; Chapter 16: The new aircraft carriers, and a related naval air mission to the U.S.A. in 1939; Chapter 17: Advices to the fleet on air capabilities, probabilities, and cognate matters; Chapter 18: Some fleet and air arm events of 1940; Chapter 19: HMS Suffolk, 1941-1942 ("Bismarck Episode"); Chapter 20: "Combined Operations", Spring 1942; Chapter 21: Genesis of some types of Combined Operations landing ships and craft of the "Assault fleet"; Chapter 22: "Petrol, oil, and lubricants over the beaches"; and Chapter 23: Further analysis of the relationship of the Chief of Combined Operations to the service ministries, etc.; and some key matters of C.O. administration.
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Chapters 24 to 31, Foreword, Appendices and Notes. Chapter 24: Combined Operations projections, including for forming units and forces, and associated movements; Chapter 25: Preparations for major Combined Operations in 1942; Chapter 26: "Torch" and its immediate aftermath; Chapter 27: Mediterranean operations of 1943, and their effect on the C.O. organisation; Chapter 28: Combined Operations headquarters, 1943: major changes in functions; Chapter 29: Redisposition of the assault fleet from the Mediterranean, 1943/44; and its preparation for Neptune/Overlord; Chapter 30: Neptune/Overlord; subsequent withdrawal of the assault fleet; and further preparations for amphibious operations in the Far East; Chapter 31: Final phase: the super-Dreadnoughts; Foreword to notes and appendices; Appendix 1: The "vulnerability of capital ships" committee, and its successor, 1936/38; Appendix 2: Regarding Lord Salisbury's dictum (of 1923); Appendix 3: Abstracts from papers on the 1938 position regarding naval air stations; Appendix 4: Notes on the supply history of the "Skua" fighter-divebomber; Appendix 5: Minute on intention of C.in C. Home Fleet to disembark fighter aircraft, etc. 19 Sep 1938; Appendix 6: Draft signal to Commander-in-Chief regarding use of reserve aircraft; Appendix 7: Draft reply to a First Lord query of 25 March 1940 (on certain relative abilities of naval and R.A.F. aircraft); Appendix 8: Submission for reply to Mr Churchill's wish for transferring F.A.A. air crews to R.A.F. Jan 1940; Appendix 9: Private letters regarding fleet air arm units placed under R.A.F. command, May 1940; Appendix 10: Air ministry attitude towards fleet air arm priorities in 1939; Appendix 11: Pre-war projections of hitting rates, and actual results obtained in 1940, in fleet aircraft torpedo and bombing attacks on ships; Appendix 12: Landing ships and craft ... some explanatory notes; Appendix 13: References to P.O.L. (Petrol Oil and Lubricants) papers of 1942; Appendix 14: Principal war conferences affecting Combined Operations; Appendix 15: Abstracts from A.C.C.O.'s notes on strategic deliberations of 1942-1943; Appendix 16: Notes on minutes of 1942 by the Assistant Chief of Combined Operations; Appendix 17: Notes of events associated with eventual Admiralty assumption of the C.C.O.'s naval responsibilities in 1943; Appendix 18: References to forces for operation "Husky"; Appendix 19: Some signals, etc., regarding redisposition of landing ships and craft from the Mediterranean for "Overlord", etc; Appendix 20: Minutes etc. illustrating scrutiny function of Combined Operations division, naval staff, Admiralty; Appendix 21: Further papers on C.O.H.Q. and Admiralty staff (Combined operations) reorganisation; Appendix 22: 1944 papers on Royal Marine roles in Combined Operations; Appendix 23: Material on assault fleet redisposition from "Overlord" to Far East; Appendix 24: Sundry references; and Notes.
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EAD/GBR/0014/ELLS 3A
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Second copy of Autobiography with Appendices and notes.
I volume. |
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