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81. NC, Cherwell papers, F398, Statistical Section, Harrod papers, ‘Bombs and Deaths’, 30 Sept 1940; G181, ‘Air Raid Casualties’ [n.d. but Sept 1940]; ‘House Damage in Air Raids’, 27 Sept 1940; ‘Bombing of London in September, October and November 1940’; G183, ‘Notes of a Conversation with Professor Zuckerman’, 26 March 1941 (attached two charts of Hanover and Frankfurt with zones of population density).

82. TNA, AIR 9/132, minute by Plans Dept, Air Ministry, 6 Jan 1941; AIR 20/2264, AWAS Report, ‘The Bomb Censuses of Liverpool, Birmingham and London’, 29 Oct 1940; AWAS Report, ‘Bomb Census of Liverpool, Birmingham, London, Coventry, Manchester, Leeds and Special Attacks’, Apr 1941.

83. CCAC, BUFT 3/26, draft directive [n.d. but June 1941].

84. TNA, AIR 40/1814, memorandum by O. Lawrence (MEW), 9 May 1941.

85. See Richard Overy, ‘The “Weak Link”: Bomber Command and the German Working Class 1940–1945’, Labour History Review, 77 (2012), 22–5.

86. CCAC, BUFT 3/48, ‘The Role of the Long-Range Bomber Force’; ‘Review of the Present Strategical Air Offensive’, 5 Apr 1941, App C, 2.

87. Ibid., 3/13, Notes on Plan ZZ, 19 Nov 1941, App VI, ‘Attack on an Area of 150 Square Miles’.

88. TNA, AIR 2/7211, bombing policy memorandum, 19 Nov 1940; AIR 20/25, Air Intelligence to Baker, 23 May 1941.

89. TNA, AIR 20/25, memorandum on bombing policy by Baker, 7 May 1941.

90. RAFM, Peirse papers, AC 71/13/61-2, Notes of a speech by Richard Peirse to the Thirty Club in London, 25 Nov 1941, 3.

91. TNA, AIR 20/4768, memorandum, 23 Sept 1941, ‘The Value of Incendiary Weapons in Attacks on Area Targets’, 2.

92. CCAC, BUFT DBOps to the director, 6 June 1941.

93. TNA, AIR 40/1351, AI 3c (Air Liaison), ‘Air Attack by Fire’, 17 Oct 1941.

94. CCAC, BUFT 3/26, report from BOPs 1 (Sq. Leader Morley), 18 Oct 1941.

95. Hugh Melinsky, Forming the Pathfinders: The Career of Air Vice-Marshal Sydney Bufton (Stroud: 2010), 59.

96. Webster, Frankland, Strategic Air Offensive, vol 1, 157–64.

97. TNA, AIR 9/150, Air Ministry War Room, Bomber Command sorties May–Oct 1940, Nov 1940–Apr 1941; DBOps to DCAS, 11 Sept 1941.

98. CCO, Portal papers, Folder 9, Peirse to Balfour, 27 Nov 1940; Portal to Peirse, 30 Nov 1940.

99. TNA, Air 14/291, meeting at Air Ministry, 10 Dec 1940; HQ no 7 Group to C-in-C, Bomber Command, 4 Jan 1941.

100. CCO, Portal papers, Folder 1/File 1, Churchill to Portal, 1 Nov 1940; Churchill to Portal, 30 Dec 1940.

101. Ibid., Folder 9/File 1940, Peirse to Churchill, 24 Dec 1940; Peirse to Portal [n.d. but Dec 1940]; File 1941, Peirse to Churchill, 1 Jan 1941.

102. John Colville, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939–1945 (London: 2004), 241, diary entry for 2 Nov 1940.

103. CCO, Portal Papers, Folder 1/File 1, Portal to Churchill, 7 Dec 1940; Folder 9/File 1940, Portal to Peirse, 5 Dec 1940; Peirse to Churchill, 24 Dec 1940. Details of raid in Middlebrook, Everitt, Bomber Command War Diaries, 111, and TNA, AIR 14/2670, Night bomb raid sheets, Dec 1940, ‘Results of Night Operations, 16/17 December 1940’.

104. Webster, Frankland, Strategic Air Offensive, vol 1, 159–60.

105. CCO, Portal papers, Folder 9/File 2, Peirse to Portal, 28 Feb 1941.

106. UEA, Zuckerman Archive, SZ/BBSU/56, ‘Bombing Policy’.

107. Ibid., draft directive, 9 July 1941; Webster, Frankland, Strategic Air Offensive, vol 4, 135–7.

108. CCO, Portal papers, Folder 9/File 1940, Peirse to Portal [n.d.].

109. RAFM, Peirse papers, AC 71/13/60, speech to the Thirty Club, 25 Nov 1941, 11.

110. TNA, 41/41, RAF Narrative, ‘The RAF in the Bombing Offensive against Germany: Vol III’, 87.

111. TNA, PREM 3/193/6A, Minister of Information to Churchill, 1 Jan 1941, ‘Conditions in Germany, December 1940’, 2.

112. CCAC, Bufton papers, BUFT 3/11, ‘Report on the Interrogation of American Legation and Consular Officials in Lisbon, 24–31 July 1941’, 4.

113. TNA, AIR 20/4768, Air Staff memorandum, 23 Sept 1941.

114. FO Historical Branch, ‘Churchill and Stalin: Documents Collated for the Anglo-Russian Seminar, 8 March 2002’, doc 9, Broadcast by Mr Churchill, 22 June 1941, 1, 3.

115. Ibid., doc 11, Telegram from Churchill to Stalin, 7 July 1941.

116. Bradley Smith, Sharing Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence 1941–1945 (Lawrence, KS: 1996), 11.

117. Colville, The Fringes of Power, 363, entry for 21 July 1941.

118. RAFM, Bottomley papers, AC 71/2/29, Peck to Bottomley, 6 Apr 1944, enclosing ‘Address to Thirty Club, 8 Mar 1944’, 1–2.

119. Middlebrook, Everitt, Bomber Command War Diaries, 166–7.

120. BA-MA, RL2-IV/28, Luftflotte 3, Gefechtskalender, ‘Durchführung und Erfolg Juli 1941’.