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180. LC, Spaatz papers, Box 143, Col. D. Zimmerman (Director of Weather) to Hansell, 7 Sept 1942, 2.

181. Ibid., Box 173, Report by AAF Scientific Advisory Group, ‘War and Weather’, May 1946, 4–6.

182. LC, LeMay papers, Box 8, 305th Bomb Group: Summary of Events, 1 Nov 1942 to 31 Dec 1943.

183. CCAC, BUFT 3/50, ‘Area Attack Employing “Gee”’ [n.d. but early 1942], 1.

184. Ibid., 3/51, Harris to Portal, 12 Dec 1944.

185. Transcript of interview with Maurice Chick, Nov 1995, 49–50.

186. LC, Spaatz papers, Box 76, Col. William Garland to Anderson, 28 Feb 1943; Anderson to all Wing Commanders, 11 Sept 1943, encl. ORS Report, ‘Effect of Spacing between Combat Wings on Bombing Accuracy’, 11 Sept 1943, 2.

187. LC, Spaatz papers, Box 76, Anderson to LeMay, 8 Sept 1943.

188. LC, Eaker papers, Box I.20, Eaker to Portal, 15 Mar 1943; Eaker to Gen. Larry Kuter, 20 Sept 1943.

189. Davis, Bombing the European Axis Powers, 176–8; Freeman, The Mighty Eighth, 118–19; W. Hays Park, ‘ “Precision” and “Area” Bombing: Who Did Which, and When?’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 18 (1995), 149–57.

190. LC, Spaatz papers, Box 80, Hugh Odishaw (MIT), ‘Radar Bombing in the Eighth Air Force’, July 1946, 88–9.

191. Ibid., Eighth Air Force ORS to Doolittle, 13 June 1944, encl. ‘Bombing Accuracy’; Hays Park, ‘ “Precision” and “Area” Bombing’, 154–6.

192. LC, Spaatz papers, Box 80, Odishaw, ‘Radar Bombing in the Eighth Air Force’, 106.

193. TNA, AIR 20/283, Bomber Command Operations, Feb 1943 to Nov 1943.

194. UEA, Zuckerman Archive, SZ/AEAF/14, Bomber Command ORS, ‘The Operational Use of Oboe Mark IA: December 1942–June 1943’; ‘The H2S Blind-Bombing Attack on Ludwigshafen, 17/18 November 1943’, 18 Dec 1943; ORS, ‘Accuracy of H2S as a Blind-Bombing Device’, 16 Dec 1943. See too Wakelam, The Science of Bombing, 119–21, 158.

195. TNA, AIR 48/67, USSBS Military Analysis Division Report no. 4, 3 Nov 1945, 3–4 and Exhibit B, ‘Sample Field Order from Bomber Command’.

196. LC, Eaker papers, Box I.21, ‘Target Selection Principles Developed by the Eighth Air Force’ [n.d. but late 1943?], 1–5.

197. Mark Guglielmo, ‘The Contribution of Economists to Military Intelligence During World War II’, Journal of Economic History, 68 (2008), 132–4; Barry Katz, Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services, 1942–1945 (Cambridge, MA: 1989), 114–18; Walter W. Rostow, Pre-Invasion Bombing Strategy: General Eisenhower’s Decision of March 25, 1944 (Aldershot: 1981), 16–21.

198. LC, Spaatz papers, Box 143, Col. R. Garrison (Adjutant General’s office), ‘Procedure Followed in Planning an Operation’, 9 July 1943, 1–8, and Annex I, ‘Procedure in Planning an Operation: Duties and Responsibilities’, 1–5.

199. LC, LeMay papers, Box 4, HQ 1st Bombardment Wing, ‘Operational Procedure’, 12 Oct 1942; HQ 1st Bombardment Wing, ‘Tactics and Techniques of Bombardment’ [n.d.].

200. Freeman, The Mighty Eighth, 93–4, report by Lt. Col. Beirne Lay; other quotations from interviews with Harold Nash, 3 Nov 1995, 20; Peter Hinchcliffe, 24 Oct 1995, 15; Barney D’Ath-Weston, 22.

201. AFHRA, Disc A5385, ‘Growth, Development and Operations’: Motion Picture Attendance, 1 Dec 1942–30 Nov 1943; Stage Show Attendance.

202. Ibid., Eighth Air Force: Combat Crew Casualties; Mark Wells, Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War (London: 1995), 31–2.

203. NARA, RG 107, Lovett papers, Box 9, Office of the Air Surgeon, Psychological Branch, ‘Report on Survey of Aircrew Personnel in the Eighth, Ninth, and Fifteenth Air Forces’, Apr 1944, 35.

204. FDRL, President’s Secretary’s Files, Box 82, memorandum from Roosevelt to Gen. Watson, encl. report from Lt. Col. John Murray on psychiatry in the Army Air Force, 4 Jan 1944, 3–4. See too Miller, Eighth Air Force, 128–34.

205. Wells, Courage and Air Warfare, 51.

206. LC, Eaker papers, Box I.16, Col. C. Cabell (HQ AAF) to Eaker, 27 May 1943.

207. NARA, RG 107, Box 9, ‘Report on Survey of Aircrew Personnel’, 82–5, 88; Wells, Courage and Air Warfare, 174.

208. Edgar Jones, ‘ “LMF”: The Use of Psychiatric Stigma in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War’, The Journal of Military History, 70 (2006), 440–41, 443–4.

209. TNA, AIR 49/357, E. C. Jewesbury, ‘Work and Problems of an RAF Neuropsychiatric Centre’, July 1943, 10–11.

210. Ibid., 16–17.

211. Wells, Courage and Air Warfare, 204–5; Jones, ‘ “LMF”’, 452.

212. LC, Eaker papers, Box I.19, Eaker to Col. George Brownwell (War Dept., Washington, DC), 28 Nov 1943.