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  • Shackleton, Edward Arthur Alexander1 (IWM interview) Shackleton, Edward Arthur Alexander1 (IWM interview)

    (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1990-08-08

    British officer served as intelligence officer with Coastal Command at RAF St Eval in GB, 1940-1943; served with Coastal Command at Admiralty in London, GB, 1943-1945; civilian Air Force Minister in GB, 1965-1966 and on Government mission to Aden during...

  • Ellis, John Romaine (IWM interview) Ellis, John Romaine (IWM interview)

    (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1998-08-05

    British civilian with Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough in GB, 1944-1945; draughtsman with Fairey Aviation at Yeovil, GB, 1946-1948; lecturer at Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, GB, 1949-1960

  • Frederick Alexander Lindemann, PC, FRS : 1st Baron Cherwell of Oxford Frederick Alexander Lindemann, PC, FRS : 1st Baron Cherwell of Oxford

    (art) Made by: Carr, Henry 1946

    image: a half-length portrait of Frederick Alexander Lindemann, wearing a suit.

  • Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (IWM interview) Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (IWM interview)

    (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1986-08-11

    Australian officer served as pilot with Royal Australian Air Force in Australia, 1930-1931; served as pilot with RAF in GB, 1931-1935; civilian pilot with Imperial Airways in GB, 1935-1939; served as pilot with RAF in GB and during rescue mission to...

  • Goddard, Victor (IWM interview) Goddard, Victor (IWM interview)

    (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1973-08-09

    British cadet served at Dartmouth College, GB, 1910-1914; officer served aboard HMS Britannia, Grand Fleet in GB coastal waters, 1914-1915; trained as balloon and airship pilot with Royal Naval Air Service in GB, 1915; served as SS Airship pilot...

  • IWM interview IWM interview

    (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1984

    British officer served with 29 Sqdn Royal Flying Corps on Western Front, 1917; POW in Germany, 1917-1918. Served as Head of Air Staff Department, Secret Intelligence Service in London, 1929-1945

  • Melville, Ronald Henry (IWM interview) Melville, Ronald Henry (IWM interview)

    (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1993-02-16

    British civil servant in Air Ministry, London, GB, 1934-1937; served as Private Secretary to Chief of Air Staff at Air Ministry, London, GB, 1937-1940; served as Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Air in GB, 1940-1943; served as Assistant Under...

  • Hanbury Brown, Robert (IWM interview) Hanbury Brown, Robert (IWM interview)

    (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1993-05-11

    British civilian assistant scientific officer with Air Ministry working on development of radar at Bawdsey Manor in GB, 1936-1938, junior scientific officer with Air Ministry in GB, 1938-1941; scientific officer with Air Ministry at Telecommunications...

  • RADAR AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE 1939-1945 RADAR AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE 1939-1945

    part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

    Personalities: Professor F A Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), with Winston Churchill and Dr D A Crow (Chief Superintendent Projectile Development, Ministry of Supply), with Vice Admiral Tom Phillips VCNS in the background, watching a demonstration of a...

  • THE STRATEGIC AIR OFFENSIVE 1939-1945 THE STRATEGIC AIR OFFENSIVE 1939-1945

    part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

    Events and Personalities: Protagonists in the debate on the value of the strategic bombing offensive against Germany: left to right, Lord Cherwell, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound and Prime Minister Winston...

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