The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945

41. CCAC, BUFT, 3/42, Bufton to Portal, 8 Apr 1943; ‘The Bombing Offensive from the U. K.’, and covering note from RAF liaison at Eaker’s HQ; Stephen McFarland, Wesley Newton, To Command the Sky: The Battle for Air Supremacy over Germany, 1942–1944 (Washington, DC: 1991), 92–4.

42. TNA, AIR 8/1103, Harris to Eaker, 15 Apr 1943. Air Ministry views on German fighters, AIR 9/423, memorandum, Director of Plans, 22 Mar 1943.

43. LC, Eaker papers, Box I.16, Col. C. Cabell to Eaker, 27 May 1943; Box I.20, Eaker to Portal, 1 June 1943.

44. Ibid., Eaker papers, Box I.16, Kuter to Eaker, 6 July 1943; Eaker to Kuter, 22 July 1943; TNA, AIR 8/1103, CCS meeting, 4 June 1943; minute, Bottomley to Portal, 10 June 1943. Webster, Frankland, Strategic Air Offensive, vol 4, 160; Bottomley to Harris, 3 Sept 1943.

45. LC, Eaker papers, Box I.19, Lovett to Eaker, 28 July 1943.

46. CCO, Portal papers, Folder 3/File 4, Portal to Churchill, 9 Nov 1942.

47. TNA, AIR 20/2025, Air Ministry statistics, RAF personnel, establishment and casualties, 1939–45.

48. RAFM, Harris papers, H67, ‘Establishment and Strength of Ancillary Staff, 31 July 1943’.

49. UEA, Zuckerman Archive, SZ/BBSU/3, Exercise Thunderbolt, précis no. 10, ‘Administrative Aspects of the Bomber Offensive’; SZ/BBSU/2, minute for Zuckerman from Claude Pelly, 21 June 1946; LC, Eaker papers, Box I.20, Harris to Balfour, 12 Jan 1943, on the transition from grass to concrete runways.

50. Ibid., Eaker to Harris, 4 Jan 1943; Box I.21, Eighth Air Force memorandum, ‘Supply and Maintenance’ [n.d.]; ‘Report of Lt. General Ira Eaker on USAAF Activities in the United Kingdom’, 31 Dec 1943, 3. Brereton Greenhouse, Stephen Harris, William Johnston and William Rawling, The Crucible of War 1939–1945: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, vol III (Toronto: 1994), 616, 631, 636.

51. PArch, Balfour papers, BAL/4, RCAF Station, Trenton, ‘The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan 1939–1945’, Ottawa 1949, 3–8.

52. Gilbert Guinn, The Arnold Scheme: British Pilots, the American South and the Allies’ Daring Plan (Charleston, SC: 2007), 484, 541.

53. John Herington, Air War Against Germany and Italy 1939–1945 (Canberra: 1954), 450–51, 452, 454, 547–51.

54. Greenhous et al., Crucible of War, 616, 627–9, 634–5.

55. LC, Eaker papers, Box I.21, ‘Report of Lt. General Ira Eaker’, 1; Donald Miller, Eighth Air Force: The American Bomber Crews in Britain (London: 2007), 71–2.

56. AFHRA, Disc A5835, ‘Eighth Air Force: Growth, Development and Operations 1 December 1942–31 December 1943’, Air Force Supply and Maintenance, chart of Serviceability B-17s, B-24s.

57. LC, Eaker papers, Box I.20, Eighth Air Force, ‘Supply and Maintenance’ [n.d]; ‘Report of Lt. General Ira Eaker’, 7.

58. LC, Arnold papers, Reel 89, Spaatz to Arnold, 28 May 1943, encl. ‘Organization of the Eighth Air Force’ by Follett Bradley; ‘The Bradley Plan for the United Kingdom’ [n.d.], charts i, iv; Summary of Personnel Requirements for the VIII Air Force Service Command; Gen. Barney Giles to Eaker, 26 Aug 1943; Parton, ‘Air Force Spoken Here’, 289.

59. LC, Eaker papers, Box I.19, Lovett to Arnold, 19 June 1943.

60. Ibid., Box I.17, Arnold to Eaker, 10 June 1943; Eaker to Arnold, 12 June 1943.

61. Ibid., Box I.17, Arnold to Gen. Devers, 29 June 1943.

62. Ibid., Box I.16, Eaker to Col. Edgar Sorensen, Washington, DC, 11 Jan 1943.

63. LC, Spaatz papers, Box 143, Hansell to Eaker and Longfellow, 26 Feb 1943, 4–5.

64. AFHRA, 520.056-188, Eighth Air Force Statistical Summary, Aircraft Loss Rate. In January the figure was 7.5%, in February, 8.1%, in March 3.2% and in April 7.8%.

65. LC, Eaker papers, Box I.16, Brig. Gen. J. Bevans (Assistant Chief of Staff, Personnel) to Eaker, 1 May 1943; Eaker to Arnold, 22 June 1943.

66. Miller, Eighth Air Force, 221.

67. LC, Spaatz papers, Box 70, Brig. Gen. C. Chauncey to all Eighth Air Force commanders, 18 Dec 1942.

68. Ibid., HQ Eighth Air Force, Provost Marshal’s ‘Report on Conduct of Troops with Regard to the British’, 1, 3–4.

69. Ibid., Eighth Air Force, ‘Anglo-American Relations’, 20 Sept 1943.

70. NC, Cherwell papers, G195, letter from MAP to War Cabinet, 12 Dec 1942; R. Ewell (Office of Scientific Research and Development) to Cherwell, 12 Dec 1942.

71. LC, Eaker papers, Box I.19, Lovett to Arnold, 19 June 1943: ‘The B-17 and B-24 are still useful types but their effectiveness will be reduced sharply by the end of the year.’

72. Ibid., Box I.17, Telegram from Arnold to Eaker, 10 June 1943.

73. Ibid., Telegram from Eaker to Arnold, 12 June 1943.