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108. John Slessor, The Central Blue: Recollections and Reflections (London: 1956), 65–6.

109. H. G. Wilmott, ‘Air Control in Ovamboland’, Journal of the Royal United Services Institution, 83 (1938), 823–9.

110. CCO, Portal papers, Folder 2/File 2, Portal to Churchill, 25 Sept 1941, encl. ‘The Moral Effect of Bombing’, 1; see too Charles Portal, ‘Air Force Co-operation in Policing the Empire’, Journal of the Royal United Services Institution, 82 (1937), 343–57.

111. Jones, Beginnings of Strategic Air Power, 107–8.

112. Ibid., 123.

113. Ibid., 118–21.

114. TNA, AIR 9/92, First Meeting of the Bombing Policy Sub-Committee, 22 Mar 1938, 1–2, 6–9.

115. Ibid., Note on A.T.S. bombing trial results [n.d.].

116. Ibid., minutes of meeting, Deputy Director of Plans, 23 Mar 1939.

117. TNA, AIR 14/225, Ludlow-Hewitt to Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry, 30 Aug 1938. See too Charles Webster, Noble Frankland, The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany, 4 vols (London: 1961), vol 1, 100.

118. TNA, AIR 9/8, Air Staff memorandum, 15 Jan 1936, 2–3, 5; AIR 9/77, Operational Requirements Committee, minutes of meeting, 11 Aug 1938, 4.

119. TNA, AIR 9/8, note from Harris to deputy chief of the air staff, 24 Sept 1936.

120. USAFA, McDonald papers, Ser V, Box 8, Folder 8, ‘Development of the U.S. Air Forces Philosophy of Air Warfare’, 3, 15. Michael Sherry, The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon (New Haven, CT: 1987), 53–6.

121. NARA, RG 18/223, Box 4, memorandum for the chief of staff, 4 Apr 1932; Arnold to the chief of the air corps, ‘Cumulative Production of Airplanes of Mobilization Planning’, 24 Mar 1931. On Britain see Sebastian Ritchie, Industry and Air Power: The Expansion of British Aircraft Production, 1935–1941 (London: 1997); George Peden, Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs (Cambridge: 2007), 137–40, 158–61. This is the thrust of David Edgerton, Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War (London: 2011), esp. ch 1.

122. Oliver Stewart, ‘The Doctrine of Strategical Bombing’, Journal of the Royal United Services Institution, 81 (1936), 97–8.

123. TNA, AIR 9/39, ‘Air Policy and Strategy’, 23 Mar 1936, 5–6.

124. USAFA, McDonald papers, Ser V, Box 8, Folder 8, ‘Development…’, 13–15.

125. William Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934–1941 (London: 1941), 160.

126. Edward Stebbing, Diary of a Decade: 1939–1950 (Lewes: 1998), 3–4.

2. THE FIRST STRATEGIC AIR OFFENSIVE

1. Grigore Gafencu, The Last Days of Europe: A Diplomatic Journey in 1939 (London: 1947), 65–6.

2. William Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934–1941 (London: 1941), 388–9, entry for 4/5 Sept 1940; Max Domarus, Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen. Band II: Erster Halbband (Munich: 1965), 1,580.

3. Heinz(ed) Boberach, Meldungen aus dem Reich: Die geheimen Lageberichte des Sicherheitsdienstes der SS 1938–1945, 17 vols (Herrsching: 1984), vol 5, 1,549, Report 9 Sept 1940.

4. See the discussion in Horst Boog, ‘Strategischer Luftkrieg in Europa 1943–1944’, in Horst Boog, Gerhard Krebs, Detlef Vogel, Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Band 7: Das Deutsche Reich in der Defensive (Stuttgart: 2001), 323–7.

5. Karl-Heinz Völker, Dokumente und Dokumentarfotos zur Geschichte der Deutschen Luftwaffe (Stuttgart: 1968), 469–71, doc 200, ‘Luftkriegführung’, Mar 1940. For the best account see James Corum, The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918–1940 (Lawrence, KS: 1997).

6. TsAMO, f.500, o.12452, d.11, Luftwaffe Generalstab, ‘Merkblatt für den Einsatz der Fliegertruppe zur unmittelbaren Unterstützung des Heeres’, 1 July 1939, 1–8.

7. TsAMO, f.500, o.12452, d.13, Luftwaffe Führungsstab, ‘Bestimmungen für die Verständigung zwischen Truppenteilen am Boden und fliegenden Verbände’, 6 Apr 1940.