Kingsley Wood
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Sir Howard Kingsley Wood was a British Conservative politician. The son of a Wesleyan Methodist minister, he qualified as a solicitor, and successfully specialised in industrial insurance. He became a
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Kingsley Wood, as Secretary of State for Air, accompanied by Air Marshal Patrick Playfair visit an RAF unit in France, c.1939-1940
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Phoney War
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The Phoney War was an eight-month period at the outset of World War II, lasting from September 1939 to May 1940, during which there were virtually no major Allied military land operations on the Weste
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…outbreak of the Second World War, Britain was producing as many new warplanes as Germany. Wood's tenure as Secretary of State for Air coincided with the Phoney War, and during this time he limited RAF activity to dropping propaganda leaflets rather than strategic bombing. When Leo Amery urged him to destroy the…
An 8-inch (203.2 mm) howitzer of the British Expeditionary Force in France during the Phoney War
People of Warsaw outside the British Embassy with a banner which says "Long live England!" just after the British declaration of war with Nazi Germany
A French soldier outside a Reichskolonialbund office in Lauterbach during the Saar Offensive
British Army and French Air Force personnel outside a dugout in France in 1939