by gerald hall
George Miles: Fredrick Miles’ brother and co-head of Miles Aircraft Limited. Admiral Ernle Chatfield: First Sea Lord in 1936
Admiral Roger Backhouse: Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, Royal Navy
Brigadier General Willem Clarke, commander of procurement for the RAAF.
Josef Stalin: Chairman of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
People’s Commissar for Defence, Kliment Voroshilov, who also had the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
Deputy Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars; Janis Rudzutaks
Courtney Martin:
Ashton Clarke:
Adolf Hitler: Leader of Nazi Germany
GroßadmiralErich Raeder: Commander of the GermanKriegsmarine.
Admiral Wilhelm Canaris: Commander of Germany’s intelligence service, the Abwehr.
French Fleet Admiral Jean Louis Xavier Francois Darlan
Assistant Ambassador William Blevins
Captain Nigel Wilkes. RAN
Commander Edwin Sampson, RAN