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Len Deighton. Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain
Fighter. The True Story of the Battle of Britain. LEN DEIGHTON
CONTENTS
Cover Designer’s Note
Illustrations
Preface to the 2014 Edition
Introduction. by A. J. P. Taylor
Hermann Göring
The Rise of the New German Air Force
The Spanish Civil War
The German Navy
Operation Sea-lion
The Douhet Theories
Flying Training
Dowding and the 15 May Cabinet Meeting
Biplanes and Monoplanes
Thrust: The Power Unit
The New Metal Airframes
The Hurricane
The Messerschmitt Bf 109
The Spitfire
Machine Guns and Cannon
Other Comparisons
Messerschmitt and Spitfire – What Were They Like to Fly?
Radar*
The Radar Theories
IFF
The Reporting Network
The Filter Room
Operations Rooms
The Observer Corps
High-Frequency Direction-Finding (HF/DF) – ‘Pip-squeak’/‘Huff-duff’
The System
The Opposing Air Forces
Comparisons – the Machines
Dornier Do 17Z and Dornier Do 215
Heinkel He 111
Junkers Ju 88A
Junkers Ju 87B
Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Bf 110
Comparisons – the Men
Comparisons – the Commanders
Phase One: Kanalkampf, the Battles over the Channel
Britain’s Civilian Repair Organisation
Phase Two: Adlerangriff (Eagle Attack)
Phase Three: the Attacks upon 11 Group Airfields, 24 August–6 September
Phase Four: 7 September Onwards, the Daylight Attacks Centre on London
The German High Command
The German Predictions
Acknowledgements (To the First Revised Edition)
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Also By Len Deighton
About the Publisher
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Title Page
Cover Designer’s Note
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Milch sent the police to arrest Junkers. He was accused of many offences, including even treason. Armed with the terrible power of the totalitarian state, Milch broke Junkers. The end of the interrogations came only when Junkers assigned 51 per cent of his various companies to the State. This was not good enough for Milch. He then demanded, and got, chairmanship of the companies for his own nominees. Still not satisfied, Milch put the ailing old man under house arrest, until he gave the State the remainder of his shares. Less than six months afterwards, Hugo Junkers died. Milch sent a delegation of mourners from the Air Ministry, with a suitably inscribed wreath. This so angered Junkers’s family that the men from the ministry returned to Berlin without attending the ceremony, rather than face their wrath.
And Hitler gave his two airmen a comprehensive slice of the kingdom. They had control of everything from Lufthansa ticket clerks to fighter pilots, and from the secret construction of military aircraft to the gliding clubs, which were now a part of the NSFK (Nazi Flying Corps). Such flexibility made these men the envy of other service chiefs, who had no such access to semi-trained personnel, and no access to Hitler via civil channels. Nor did other service chiefs have such control over the design and development of their weapons, and the supply of them, as the Air Ministry had over the aircraft industry.
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