Wings (46 page)
Authors: Patrick Bishop
Townsend, Peter,
172
train-busting, 3009–10
Transjordan,
153
transverse arresters,
23
Trefusis-Forbes, Jane,
273
Trenchard, Hugh Montague,
153
,
157
,
159
,
191
,
308
and formation of RAF,
129
,
137
,
143
,
146
and RFC,
31
,
43
,
64
,
66
,
73
,
77
,
97
,
101
tropopause,
334
Tunis,
303
Turkish army,
154
United Nations,
336
United States Air Force (USAF),
338
,
340
,
368
United States Army Air Force (USAAF),
139
,
271
,
303
,
308
,
311
,
314
,
335
University Air Squadrons,
148
,
211
,
329
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs),
365
US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement,
341
USS
Birmingham
,
22
Valletta,
267
V-Bomber force,
341
Versailles Treaty,
158
Vickers Valentia,
260
Vickers Valiant,
341
Vickers Vernon,
154
Vickers Victoria,
150
Vickers Vildebeest,
235
Vickers Virginia,
150
Vickers Warwick,
255
Vickers Wellington,
167
,
176
,
181
,
212
,
229
,
260
Victoria Crosses,
30
,
67
,
72
,
89
,
117
,
134
‘Viff’ (Vector in Forward Flight),
350
Vigors, Tim,
172
V-weapons sites,
313
Waller, J. H.,
77
Wallis, Barnes,
321
War Office,
21
n,
40
,
43
,
51
,
86
,
89
,
125
Warneford, Reginald,
82
Warsaw,
220
Waterfall, Vincent,
46
Watson, Mike,
352
Watson-Watt, Robert,
169
Waugh, Evelyn,
31
Webb, Gordon,
297
Webster, Sir Charles,
182
Wells, H. G.,
17
Wessex helicopters,
345
West, Peter,
342
Westland Wapiti,
150
Whittle, Frank,
328
Wilhelm II, Kaiser,
83
Williams, Hazel,
275
Williams, Lieutenant Colonel Huw,
359
Wilson, Lieutenant C. W.,
47
Wilson, Denys Corbett,
66
Wilson, H. J. ‘Willie’,
331
wireless telegraphy,
62
Withers, Martin,
346
Wolff, Hans Joachim,
131
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF),
273
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force Corps,
149
Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF),
149
,
273
Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS),
273
Woodiwiss, Lieutenant,
66
Woods, Eric,
213
Woods, Mike,
366
Worcester air show,
11
World Disarmament Conference,
157
Wren, Sir Christopher,
141
Wright, Orville and Wilbur,
15
,
21
Wuppertal,
286
Wyllie, Harold,
60
Yates, Harry,
291
Yeullet, Walter ‘Toby’,
123
Young, John,
195
Yule, Lieutenant J. S.,
26
Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand von,
19
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Patrick Bishop has been a foreign correspondent since 1982, covering numerous conflicts around the world. He has reported from the front line of almost every major war of our
era. In the last six years he has emerged as a military historian of the first order with his top-ten bestsellers
Fighter Boys
and
Bomber Boys
, which cast new light on the men who
fought in the Battle of Britain and the Strategic Air Campaign against Germany. He is also the author of the much-praised
Battle of Britain
, 3
Para
and
Target
Tirpitz
.
1
. To be fair to the navy, the War Office, and French and American governments also declined the offer.
2
. This song was a favourite of the singer and actor George Robey. It is about an errant husband who is stopped by his wife from leaping,
unclothed, into the water to save his paramour ‘Miss Hewitt’.
3
. Fred Rees on Shaun Spadah in 1921.
4
. The South African Air Force stuck to army ranks.
