GB 0099 KCLMA Waite - WAITE, Air Cdre Reginald Newnham (1901-1975)

2 boxes or 0.02 cubic metres

GB 0099 KCLMA Waite Created 1942-[1953] Collection (fonds) 2 boxes or 0.02 cubic metres

Born in 1901; educated at Repton School and RAF Cadet College, Cranwell; commissioned, 1921; various posts in Coastal Command, 1921-1939; served in First Lord's Operations Room, Admiralty, 1939-1942; commanded RAF Station, St Eval, Cornwall, 1942, commanded Coastal Command Station, Nassau, Bahamas, 1942-1944; served at Supreme HQ, Allied Expeditionary Force, 1944-1946; Director of Air Branch, Control Commission, Berlin, 1947-1949; devised and organised the Air Lift to Berlin in 1948; conducted Anglo-Russian enquiry into collision between Yak fighter and GB civilian aircraft flying from Hamburg to Berlin during the Berlin Airlift, 1948; Commandant, RAF Bircham Newton; Assistant Chief of Staff, Allied Air Forces, Central Europe, 1951-1953; retired 1953; died in 1975.

Loaned to the Centre by the family in 1984, and microfilmed in 1999 prior to withdrawal.

Papers relating to his RAF career, 1942-[1953], principally comprising correspondence relating to the development of a submersible target at RAF St Eval, Cornwall, 1942, dated 1948; manuscript notes on the problems of establishing Coastal Command Station, Nassau, Bahamas, as a training centre for Coastal Liberator crews, 1942; official report on the RAF occupation of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 5-11 May 1945; printed reports on the progress of air disarmament in Germany in 1944-1946, produced by British Air Forces of Occupation, 1945-1947; correspondence relating to his work as Director of Air Branch, Control Commission, Berlin, 1947-1949, and to the planning of the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; official report on organisation and structure of Berlin Airlift administration; RAF training course notes and papers, 1950; papers relating to his service as Assistant Chief of Staff, Allied Air Forces Central Europe, [1951-1953], notably including photographs of Waite, [1951-1953]; published RAF manuals, 1948, 1950.

Arranged in the following sections: RAF St Eval; Coastal Command Station, Nassau; British Air Forces of Occupation; Berlin; course notes; Allied Air Forces Central Europe; RAF manuals.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
English

Summary Guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

The Public Record Office holds a copy of his report into the Viking-Yak disaster, 1948.

Decorations: CB, CBE
Apr 1997 Air transport Americas Armed forces Bahamas Berlin Berlin airlift, 1948-1949 Boundaries Caribbean Civil aviation Cornwall Disarmament Eastern Europe East West relations Economic sanctions England Europe Foreign aid Germany Higher science education Humanitarian law International conflicts International cooperation International law International politics International relations Military aviation Military education Military engineering Military operations Military organizations Nassau Occupied territories Organizations Peace Photographs RAF , Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force Rights of states Schleswig-Holstein State security St Eval Territorial rights Transport UK Visual materials War Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events) London

Loaned to the Centre by the family in 1984, and microfilmed in 1999 prior to withdrawal.

Papers relating to his RAF career, 1942-[1953], principally comprising correspondence relating to the development of a submersible target at RAF St Eval, Cornwall, 1942, dated 1948; manuscript notes on the problems of establishing Coastal Command Station, Nassau, Bahamas, as a training centre for Coastal Liberator crews, 1942; official report on the RAF occupation of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 5-11 May 1945; printed reports on the progress of air disarmament in Germany in 1944-1946, produced by British Air Forces of Occupation, 1945-1947; correspondence relating to his work as Director of Air Branch, Control Commission, Berlin, 1947-1949, and to the planning of the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; official report on organisation and structure of Berlin Airlift administration; RAF training course notes and papers, 1950; papers relating to his service as Assistant Chief of Staff, Allied Air Forces Central Europe, [1951-1953], notably including photographs of Waite, [1951-1953]; published RAF manuals, 1948, 1950.

Arranged in the following sections: RAF St Eval; Coastal Command Station, Nassau; British Air Forces of Occupation; Berlin; course notes; Allied Air Forces Central Europe; RAF manuals.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

• English

• Latin

English

The Public Record Office holds a copy of his report into the Viking-Yak disaster, 1948.

Summary Guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Decorations: CB, CBE

Decorations: CB, CBE

• English