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245. Price, Instruments of Darkness, 175–8, 184–6, 195–6, 205–6. On ‘Carpet’ and countermeasures see RAFM, Saundby papers, AC 72/12, Box 7, ‘War in the Ether’, 45–6.

246. Westermann, Flak, 234–5.

247. Ibid., 238–41.

248. BA-MA, RL2 IV/101, Vorstudien zur Luftkriegsgeschichte, Heft 8, 32–3; Air Ministry, Rise and Fall of the German Air Force, 283–5.

249. Westermann, Flak, 247–9.

250. BA-B, RL3/237, GL C-Amt, Studie 1036; Lutz Budrass, Flugzeugindustrie und Luftrüstung in Deutschland 1918–1945 (Düsseldorf: 1998), 868–9; Horst Boog, ‘Strategischer Luftkrieg in Europa 1943–1944’, in Horst Boog et al., Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg: Band 7: Das Deutsche Reich in der Defensive (Stuttgart: 2001), 309–11.

251. IWM, EDS AL/1746, Karl-Otto Saur interrogation, 10 Aug 1945, 6.

252. IWM, MD, vol 56, 2701-13, memorandum by Milch, ‘Der Jägerstab’.

253. Calculated from Budrass, Flugzeugindustrie und Luftrüstung, 836. Serviceability rates in Webster, Frankland, Strategic Air Offensive, vol 4, 501.

254. McFarland, Newton, To Command the Sky, 135; Schmid, ‘German Dayfighting’, 147.

255. AFHRA, Disc A5835, Tactical Development, 99. Elementary training declined from 100 hours in 1942 to 70 in 1943 and 52 in 1944; Fighter School hours declined from 60 to 40; OTU hours were 50 in 1942, 16–18 in 1943, 20 in 1944.

256. Schmid, ‘German Dayfighting’, 140–42.

257. Adolf Galland, The First and the Last (London: 1955), 189, 200–01.

258. LC, Spaatz papers, Box 143, Anderson to Spaatz, 28 Feb 1944, 2.

259. LC, Spaatz papers, Box 94, statistics on total tonnage dropped by USAAF and RAF, Jan 1944 to May 1944.

260. TNA, AIR 14/739A, ‘Conduct of Strategic Bomber Offensive before Preparatory Stage of “Overlord”’, 17 Jan 1944, 4–5.

261. Ibid., HQ Bomber Command, Air Intelligence, ‘Progress of RAF Bomber Offensive against German Industry’, 19 Feb 1944; Harris to Balfour, 2 Mar 1944.

262. CCO, Denis Richards Archive, File IV/Folder B, Portal to Sinclair, 29 Jan 1944.

263. W. A. Jacobs, ‘The British Strategic Air Offensive against Germany in World War, II’, in R. Cargill Hall (ed), Case Studies in Strategic Bombardment (Washington, DC: 1998), 139–40.

264. TNA, FO 935/126, REDept, ‘Preliminary Attack Assessment, Berlin’, 23 Mar 1944, 1, 3.

265. Webster, Frankland, Strategic Air Offensive, vol 2, 193.

266. Williamson Murray, Luftwaffe: Strategy for Defeat 1933–1945 (London: 1985), 198–9.

267. Stephen McFarland, Wesley Newton, ‘The American Strategic Air Offensive against Germany in World War II’, in R. Cargill Hall (ed), Case Studies in Strategic Bombardment (Washington, DC: 1998), 214–16; Davis, Carl A. Spaatz, 322–6.

268. UEA, Zuckerman Archive, SZ/BBSU/101, ‘Analysis of M.E.W. Estimates of German War Production’ [n.d.], 10.

269. LC Spaatz papers, Box 68, HQ USSTAF, ‘The Allied Air Offensive against Germany and Principal Criticisms by the Enemy Leaders’, June 1945, Table C, Interrogation of Hermann Göring, 1 June 1945.

270. TNA, AIR 10/3873, BBSU, ‘German Experience in the Underground Transfer of War Industries’, 12.

271. Budrass, Flugzeugindustrie und Luftrüstung, 868; Boog, ‘Strategischer Luftkrieg’ 101–3.

272. LC, Spaatz papers, Box 67, Committee of Experts, ‘Plan for the Completion of the Combined Bomber Offensive’, 5 Mar 1944, 2–4; Katz, Foreign Intelligence, 19–20; F. H. Hinsley et al., British Intelligence in the Second World War (London: 1988), vol 3, pt ii, 497–9.

273. Rostow, Pre-Invasion Bombing Strategy, 53–5.

274. Davis, Carl A. Spaatz, 398–400; Rostow, Pre-Invasion Bombing Strategy, 68.

275. Davis, Carl A. Spaatz, 370–79; Murray, Luftwaffe, 215.

276. LC, Eaker papers, Box I.35, ‘Decline of the GAF: Report from Captured Personnel’, forwarded to Military Intelligence Division, 15 Mar 1945, 6.

277. Heinz Knocke, I Flew for the Führer (London: 1953), 148–9.

278. Davis, Carl A. Spaatz, 379–81.

279. TsAMO, f.500, o.957971, d.448, ‘Einzelnachrichten des 1c Dienstes West der Luftwaffe’, 6 May 1944, 12.

280. Ian McLachlan, Russell Zorn, Eighth Air Force Bomber Stories (Yeovil: 1991), 110–11.

281. AFHRA, Disc A1722, Eighth Air Force, ‘Tactical Development August 1942–May 1945’, 99.