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Coventry (1940) 72, 78
Cowan, Alec 189, 255, 259
Croft-on-Tees, North Yorkshire 68
Cross, Elvin 304, 319
Curtiss-Wright Corporation: P-36 Hawks 120; P-40 Warhawks 120–21
Dabbs, Ken 301, 305, 320
Daimler-Benz: factories 142, 286; jet engines 82, 90
David, Colonel William R. 269–70
Davis, David R. 151
Davis, Lieutenant Don 49
Debden, RAF (Essex) 17, 18–19, 20, 107, 229, 293, 314–15, 331, 350
Deelen, Holland 96
De Havilland Mosquitoes 75, 110–11, 116, 132, 254, 286
Dickleburgh, Norfolk 37
Diepholz, Germany 294, 296, 299, 300
Dimmick, Allen 230, 231
Doggett, Earl 292–3
Dolenga, Hauptmann Werner 162
Dölling, Unteroffizier Rudolf 30
Doolittle, Major-General Jimmy xxv; background 177, 178; develops instrument-only flying 177; leads raid on Japan 178; takes command of Eighth Air Force 176, 178, 180, 184, 197, 198–200; his new strategy 209, 212, 214, 219, 225–6, 230–31, 237, 256, 307, 328; and Arnold 220; recalls bombers 241, 243–4; and Spaatz 244, 257, 259; and Operation ARGUMENT 201, 202, 259, 260–61, 268
Dos, Margarete xxvii, 171–3, 193, 194, 315
Douglas, Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto 123
Douglas DC-3 60
Douhet, Giulio: Command of the Air 57–8, 70
Dowding, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh 58
Dresden, Germany 98–9
drop tanks 29–30, 123, 126, 128, 129, 242
Dunstable, Bedfordshire: Central Forecast Office 265
Düren, Germany 107
Düsseldorf, raids on 108, 112, 113, 115, 116–17
Eaker, Lt-General Ira xxv; background 55–7; as commander of Eighth Air Force 39, 43, 52, 62, 101, 120; at Casablanca Conference 101–2; his ‘Plan’ to destroy German fighters 102–4, 105; and Schweinfurt raid 53, 54; and Spaatz 63; and Arnold 127; in need of aircraft 129, 145, 157, 175, 197, 198, 201; as commander-in-chief of Eighth and Ninth Air Forces 134, 200, 233; and Operation POINTBLANK 134–5; as scapegoat for Arnold’s mistakes 175–6; his failures 176; replaced by Arnold 176, 178–80, 198; and Operation ARGUMENT 259–60, 273
early-warning services/systems, German 95, 96, 112
Eastern Front 25, 28, 77, 83, 93, 99, 130, 132, 194, 314; see also Soviet Union
Eder Dam, Germany 77
Edison, Sergeant 48
Eisenach, Germany 319
Eisenhower, General Dwight D. 133, 176, 197, 244, 245, 256, 343, 345
Elliott, Dick 49–50
Emden, Germany 166
Epps, Bill 331
Essen, Germany: KRUPP works 98
Fabius, Unteroffizier 222, 223
Falck, Major Wolfgang 110, 131
Fame’s Favored Few 43–4, 45, 46, 50–51
Fawcett, Dick 116
Fest, Jonny 30, 162
Fieseler aircraft factory see Kassel
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby 124
flak see anti-aircraft fire
Flugmeldedienst 95
Flugwache 95
Focke-Wulf: factories 40, 185; 190s xi, 19, 90, 100, 104, 122, 124, 150, 168, 181, 205–6, 212, 213, 226, 227, 230, 235, 273, 275, 277, 278–9, 297
Foggia airfields, Italy 134, 135, 136, 179, 274, 294, 299, 311, 318
Foley, Sergeant 50
Ford, Sergeant 47
Fortresses see Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress bombers
Foster, Lieutenant Justus 276
France 95, 120, 123, 135, 137, 140–41; Resistance 141, 152
Frankfurt am Main, raids on 68–9, 142, 186, 234, 245, 248
Freeman, Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid 58
Freya radar 76, 91, 95
Führmann, Unteroffizier Erich 33, 161–2, 163
Gabreski, Major Francis ‘Gabby’ xxv; background 14–16; missions 16, 107, 150, 166, 168–70, 184, 202, 205, 276, 307–8; as POW 345; postwar 345
Galland, Generalmajor Adolf ‘Dolfo’ xxvii, 28, 87–8; on bombing of Hamburg 80; has hopes for Me262 production 83, 84, 340; and Göring 86–7, 88, 89; appointed General der Jagdflieger 88–90, 92, 93, 96; and Herrmann’s Wilde Sau 93, 94; increases day-fighter force 130; clashes with Göring 160–61, 181; concerned by pilots’ lack of bad-weather training 221, 238; disagrees with Göring over tactics 242, 247; returns to flying 247; postwar 347
‘GEE’ (navigation system) 75, 140, 265
Geiger, August 323
Gelsenkirchen, Germany 291
Gentile, Captain Don xxv, 21–2, 226–9, 322–3, 332, 349–50
George VI 186, 198
George, Harold 59
Gerhard, Dieter 29
German airforce see Luftwaffe
Giles, Lt-General Barney 125–6, 129, 214, 220
Giltner, Captain Joe 233, 234
Gilze-Rijen airfield, Holland 110, 247
Ginn, ‘Hydro’ 6
Godfrey, John 349
Goebbels, Josef 85, 99
Goldstein, Sergeant Larry ‘Goldie’ xxv; background 145–7; joins 388th BG 145, 147–8; missions 148, 171, 186, 202, 247, 248, 269, 271, 282, 285, 298, 300, 317–18, 325, 329, 335–6, 345; and loss of friends 291; postwar 345
GOMORRAH, Operation 78, 80
Goodfellow, Lieutenant John C. 136
Goodson, Captain Jim 18, 19, 226, 281
Göring, Reichsmarschall Hermann xxvii, 85; shocked by Allied bombing raids 74, 80; and production of Me262s 83, 85; breaks down 86–7; and Galland 88, 89; and Jeschonnek 92; and Herrmann’s Wilde Sau 94, 95, 143, 144, 191; orders destruction of Allied bombers 130; and Schmid 131; and Knoke 29, 132–3; at Insterburg air display 159–60; clashes with Galland 160–61, 181; falls in with Hitler’s strategy 239, 240; fooled by American raid 242; accepts Schmid’s arguments 313–14; goes on leave 340
Gotha, Germany 271, 304, 317, 320–21, 328
Graveley, RAF (Cambridgeshire) 140, 141, 149, 259, 261
Graz, Austria 303, 311
Great Sampford, RAF (Essex) 18
Greece 93, 136
Greenham Common, RAF (Berkshire) 119
Grieg, Captain Nordhal 171
Grosvenor, William ‘Bill’ 2, 3
Ground Position Indicators 138
Guernica, Spain 70
Halberstadt, Germany 209, 210, 214, 218, 303, 309, 316
Halesworth, RAF (Suffolk) 107, 108, 350
Halifax bombers see Handley-Page Halifax III bombers
Halverson Provisional Detachment 152
Hamburg, raids on 78, 80, 85, 92, 94, 98, 99, 132, 194
Hamelin, Germany 27, 306, 307, 341
Handley, Flight Sergeant Ken 262, 263, 266, 327, 328, 337, 344, 347
Handley Page Halifax III bombers x, 64, 66, 68–9, 111–12, 113–14, 115, 116, 139, 141, 187, 261, 262, 266, 327
Hanover, Germany 66, 230, 276
Harding, Colonel Neil ‘Chick’ 40
Harker, Ron 122, 123, 124
Harris, Air Marshal Sir Arthur xxvi, 13, 35, 65, 72, 98, 253; rebuilds Bomber Command 73–9; his ‘Blue Books’ 77; his bombing philosophy 98–9, 103, 104–5, 266–7; plans to bomb Berlin 104, 108–9; and Düsseldorf raid 113; launches ‘Battle of Berlin’ 117, 138–9, 142–3, 144, 171, 194; meets Arnold and Doolittle 174, 198; and raid on Frankfurt 186; and cross-Channel invasion 195; and Spaatz 245; targets Leipzig 253–4, 266; introduces diversionary tactics 254; opposes Schweinfurt raid 326; massed bombing tactics fail 343, 444
Hartmann, Bibi 341–2
Hawker Tempests 127–8
Hawker Typhoons 127–8
Heinkel, Ernst 81, 111
Heinkel: Rostock factory 101; He 111 84; He 177s 71, 240, 241; He 219 111
Helmstedt, Germany 271
Hemphill, Lieutenant George E. 150
Henschel factories, Kassel 66, 70
Herrmann, Oberst Hans-Joachim ‘Hajo’ xxvii, 92–5, 131, 132, 143–4, 181, 190, 191–3, 241, 254, 347
Hethel, RAF (Norfolk) 296, 297
High Wycombe, RAF (Buckinghamshire) 53, 77, 98, 113, 213, 258
Himmelbett radar system 91–2, 95, 132
Himmler, Heinrich 159
Hitchcock, Major Tommy 124
Hitler, Adolf 34, 60; and Battle of Britain 11, 99; belief in technology and the Luftwaffe 26; judgement worsens 84, 97; clashes with Milch 84–5; vacillation 85–6, 240–41; and Göring 86–7; insists on offensive action 110, 112, 128, 138, 239; and Italy 134; his approach to leadership 143; at Insterburg air display 159–60; congratulates Herrmann 192–3; reduces pilot recuperation periods 243
Hofmann, Willi 289–90
Honeycutt, Airleigh 311
Hopkins, Harry 174
Horchdienst 95, 96, 116
Hornet, USS 178
Howard, Major Jim 215, 216–17, 218–19, 220
H2S (radar) 75, 109, 138, 140, 198, 265, 326, 327
H2X (radar) 135, 198, 200–1, 220, 260, 300
Hubbard, Lloyd 236
Hughes, Elaine 292
Hughes, Captain Harry 45, 48, 50
Hughes, Lt Robert ‘Bob’ xxv, 40–42, 46–7, 49–50, 51, 53, 186, 242, 291–2, 346
Ingmire, Sergeant Richard E. 204
Insterburg airfield, East Prussia 159–60
Iowa, USS 174
Irving, David 347
Italy 25, 26, 78, 79, 133–7, 173, 178–9, 273–4, 294, 299, 310–11, 318
Japan/Japanese 11, 59, 139; and Pearl Harbor 12, 15, 178; Doolittle Raid (1942) 178
Jena, Germany 171–2
Jeschonnek, General Hans 92, 94
Johnen, Oberleutnant Wilhelm ‘Wim’ xxvii, 109–12, 133, 181, 195, 221–5, 241, 289, 347, 348
Johnson, Johnnie 123
Johnson, Ralph 6, 7
Johnson, Lt Robert ‘Bob’ xxv, 113, 235, 237–8; background 13–14, 17; missions 1–7, 14, 107–8, 150, 166–7, 168, 184, 202–3, 205–6, 230, 231, 243, 275–6; becomes an ace 7, 32, 348; postwar 348
Jouanjean, Janine 141
Joyce, William (Lord Haw-Haw) 209
Junkers: factory 270; Ju88s xi, 3, 71, 84, 104, 212, 214, 217, 254, 264; Ju87 Stukas 71; Ju188s 254
Junkers Motoren (Jumo) engines 84
Kammerer, Oberfeldwebel 225
Kammhuber, Oberst Josef 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 111, 132
Kamprath, Leutnant 223, 225
Kassel: raids on 66, 68, 69–70, 79, 98, 106, 108, 160; Fieseler aircraft factory 66, 160
Keeffe, Lieutenant James H. ‘Jim’ xxv, 295–7, 299–300, 317, 319, 320–22, 325, 346
Keirsted, Lieutenant Belford J. ‘BJ’ 145, 147, 148, 150, 271, 291
Keith, Lieutenant Kent 202, 335
Kepner, Major-General William ‘Bill’ xxvi, 56, 199–200, 214, 225–6, 230, 236, 237, 256, 257, 268, 293
Kesselring, Feldmarschall Albert 134
Kiel 202, 204, 254, 263, 327; U-boat pens 42
Kimbolton, RAF (Cambridgeshire) 149, 151, 209, 210–11, 218, 283, 303, 310, 324, 346
Kindelberger, James Howard ‘Dutch’ 121, 126
King, Admiral Ernest 63
Kiser, Bob 270, 281
Klopotek, Bob 164
Knettishall, RAF (Suffolk) 145, 147–8, 285, 325, 329, 336
Knoke, Leutnant Heinz xxvii, 27–8; marriage 28; missions 27, 28, 29–33; shot down 32, 97; and death of fellow airmen 33–4, 162–3, 248, 299, 323; as leading ace 132, 181; not impressed by Göring 132–3; further missions 161, 168, 182; shot down again 203–4; back flying 238, 241, 243, 247–8, 299, 306–7, 331, 334–5; shot down again 341, 347–8; wounded by mine 248; postwar 348
Knoke, Ingrid 204
Knoke, Lilo 28, 182, 204
Körner, Paul 81
Kreidler, Captain Howard 158
Kreuger, Feldwebel 306–7, 323
Kruer, Ed 167
Krupp works, Essen 98
Kugel-Fischer ball-bearings factory see Schweinfurt
Kursk, Soviet Union 78
Lady Shamrock 205, 206–8
Lamb, Roger ‘Sheep’ 187
Lancaster bombers see Avro Lancaster bombers
Landry, Colonel Robert B. 107
Langley Field, Virginia: Air Corps Tactical School 59, 60
Lawley, Lieutenant William R. ‘Bill’ xxvi, 157–8, 217, 270–71, 277–80, 282–3, 284–5, 290, 346
Leconfield, RAF (Yorkshire) 262, 327
Leeming, RAF (North Yorkshire) 68, 69, 112–13, 116, 166, 261
Leigh-Mallory, Air Marshal Sir Trafford 123, 127–8, 245, 256–7, 344
Leipzig, raids on 66, 253–4, 258, 262, 264, 265–7, 270, 272, 275–8, 294, 313, 315, 339–40
Leiston, RAF (Suffolk) 233, 272
LeMay, Brigadier-General Curtis 40, 107
Lemke, Hauptmann Wilhelm 182
Letter, Danny 291
Leuchter, Fred 347
Leverkusen, Germany 142
Liberators see Consolidated B-24 Liberators
Lichtenstein radar 96, 111
Lightnings see Lockheed P-38 Lightnings
Lindbergh, Charles 158
‘Little Friends’ 44
Lockheed P-38 Lightnings x, 30, 125, 129, 136, 199, 210, 232, 268, 303, 323, 324, 335
London 173, 187; ‘Baby Blitz’ 239, 241; see also Blitz, the
Lorient, France: U-boat pens 140–41
Lovett, Robert A. 120, 125
Lucera airfield, Italy 274, 294, 310
Ludford Magna, RAF (Lincolnshire) 188, 255, 259, 263, 266, 286
Ludwigshafen, Germany 139, 186, 205
Luftflotte Reich 180, 242
Luftwaffe xvi, xvii, 7, 15, 16, 24–5, 26–7, 54, 64, 70–71, 72, 80–88, 89–91, 104–5, 109, 110–12, 129–32, 180–81, 221–5, 239–41, 242–3, 313–15, 355; Staffeln 15, 91; Jagddivisionen 95; losses 99, 131, 162, 221, 306, 313, 339, 341, 342, 355, 356; see also Focke-Wulf; Heinkel; Herrmann, Hans-Joachim; Junkers; Knoke, Heinz; Messerschmitt
Lüneberg Heath, Germany 334
McArthur, Lieutenant Jimmy 295, 296–7, 300, 320–21, 325
McColpin, Carroll ‘Red’ 18
McGinley, Frank 137
McGinnis, Willy 310
McGinty, Sergeant Hugh ‘Mac’ xxvi, 290–91; background 149; missions 148–51, 186, 209–11, 212–14, 216, 217–18, 245–6; on leave 245, 246; further missions 274–5, 283, 303–4, 305–6, 308–10, 316, 317, 322, 335; postwar 346
McKennon, Lieutenant ‘Smoke’ 51
McKew, Lieutenant Marshall ‘Mac’ 137, 295, 318
McLaughlin, Lt J. Kemp xxvi, 43–6, 47–9, 50–51, 54
Madingley, Cambridgeshire: American cemetery 246, 346
Mahle (gunner) 222–3, 224
Mahurin, Major Walker 239
Malta 24, 93, 123, 127
‘Mammut’ radar 95
‘Mandrel’ (radar-jamming device) 76
Mannheim, Germany 139, 141–2
Mannheim radar 143
Manston, Kent 169–70, 226
Marienburg, Germany: Focke-Wulf plant 40
Marseille, Hans-Joachim 82
Marshall, General George 63, 134, 174, 197
Martin Aircraft Company 60, 61
Mason, Lieutenant Henry 271, 278, 279–80, 284
Mathies, Sergeant Archie 290
Mayer, Major Egon 90
Meredith, Dick 68, 117
Merlin engines 114, 122, 124
Messerschmitt, Willi 81, 83, 160, 348
Messerschmitt factories 101, 136, 303, 313, 320–21, 337, 339–40; Me109s xii, 3, 81, 82, 90, 100, 102, 104, 108, 122, 124, 136, 150, 181, 183, 202–3, 206, 212, 214–15, 216, 217, 248, 254, 275, 304, 320, 333, 340; Me110s xii, 3, 82–3, 110, 111, 150, 168, 212, 213, 214–15, 216, 217, 221–2, 276; Me210s xii, 3, 83, 212; Me262s 83, 84, 85, 86, 160, 241, 340; Me309s 81–2; Me410s 83, 231
Metcalf, Lieutenant 292
Meyers, Lt-Colonel Gil 307
Milch, Feldmarschall Erhard xxvii, 80–82, 83, 84–6, 89, 92, 93, 159, 160, 239, 240–41, 289–90, 340, 341
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bsp; Miley, Captain Spike 22
Miller, Bob 147
Ministry of Aircraft Production, British 57, 128
Mitchell, William ‘Billy’ 58–9, 70
Möhne Dam 77
Mölders, Werner 88
‘Monica’ (tail-warning radar) 76
Moore, Sergeant Jim 115, 116
Mosquitoes see De Havilland Mosquitoes
Moulton, Lieutenant Raymond ‘Moose’ H. 295
Mülheim, Germany 93–4
Müller, Friedrich-Karl ‘Tutti’ 191
Munich: Beer Hall Putsch (1923) 131
Münster, raids on 1, 33, 37, 40, 52, 186, 202
Murphy, Lieutenant Paul 279
Murphy, Lieutenant Tom 42
Mussolini, Benito 26, 133
Mustangs see North American Mustangs
Nathan, Matt(y) 150, 246, 275
navigational systems 73, 99, 103; ‘GEE’ 75, 140, 265; see also radar systems
Neumann, Edu 94
Nine Little Yanks and a Jerk 40, 42, 49–50, 51, 150
Nissen huts 159
Norden, Carl: bombsight 61, 62, 71, 76, 322
North African campaigns 12–13, 25, 57, 133
North American Aviation 121–2, 126
North American P-51/P51A/P51B/P51D Mustangs x, xxiii, 106, 119–20, 122, 123–7, 129, 135, 163, 164, 166, 199, 210, 211–12, 214–15, 218, 231, 233, 234, 236, 245, 249, 256, 275, 293, 294, 298, 300, 304, 342, 343
Nowotny, Sergeant 243
Nuremberg, Germany 329, 343–4
Oboe (radar) 75, 109, 135, 138, 140, 254, 265
O’Brien, Lieutenant William ‘OBee’ 301
O’Connor, Frank 215, 216
O’Grady, Lieutenant Ed 45, 48, 49
Öhlschläger, Leutnant 28
Old Crow 298, 301
Ormerod, Pilot Officer John ‘Curly’ 288
Oschersleben, raid on 209, 210, 213, 214, 216, 218, 219, 269, 271
Osnabrück, Germany 186
Ott, Major George 48
OVERLORD, Operation 35, 104, 105, 106, 126–7, 176, 196, 245, 256, 260, 344
P-38s see Lockheed P-38 Lightnings
P-47s see Republic P-47 Thunderbolts
P-51/P51A/P51B/P51-D see North American P-51 Mustangs
Packard: Merlin engines 124, 125
panzer commanders 181
Parchim airfield, Germany 221, 224–5
Park, Air Vice-Marshal Keith 130
Pathfinder Force (PFF) 75, 76, 109, 116, 138, 139, 140–42, 149, 186, 191, 201, 265, 270, 271, 327, 337
Pattison, Wing Commander Jack 113, 116, 117
Patton, General George 199
Paxton, David 331
Pearl Harbor (1941) 12, 15, 178
Peaslee, Colonel Budd 45, 46, 47, 48, 49
Peenemünde research establishment, Germany 86, 92, 160