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“Caught in the cross fire”: Sir Gerald Campbell, Lord Beaverbrook and the near demise of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, May-October 1940 (2015)
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Fedorowich, K. (2015). “Caught in the cross fire”: Sir Gerald Campbell, Lord Beaverbrook and the near demise of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, May-October 1940. Journal of Military History, 79(1), 37-68

This essay examines a highly significant but little know incident –the ‘Campbell affair’ - that occurred during the first six months of Winston Churchill’s premiership between May and October 1940. As the RAF and Luftwaffe fought for aerial supremac... Read More about “Caught in the cross fire”: Sir Gerald Campbell, Lord Beaverbrook and the near demise of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, May-October 1940.