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340. USAFA, MacDonald papers, Ser V, Box 12, Folder 1, JIC SHAEF, ‘Bombing Policy in Germany’, 6 Oct 1944.

341. NARA, RG 107, Box 28, Lovett to Arnold, 9 Jan 1945, 2–3.

342. RAFM, Harris papers, Misc. Box A, Folder 4, ‘One Hundred Towns of Leading Economic Importance’.

343. AFHRA, Disc MAAF 233, Air Ministry to HQ 15th Air Force, 14 Oct 1944, additions to target list (as well as Dresden, the additions were Eberswalde, Plauen, Jenbach, Obergrafendorf).

344. CCAC, BUFT 3/51, Combined Strategic Targets Committee, ‘Target Priorities for Attack of Industrial Areas’, 27 Nov 1944.

345. CCO, Portal papers, Folder 5, Portal to Churchill, 4 Oct 1944.

346. Ibid., Folder 6, Report by A. H. Birse (Churchill’s interpreter) ‘Notes on Air Chief Marshal Sir A. Tedder’s Meeting with Marshal Stalin’, 15 Jan 1945.

347. Probert, Bomber Harris, 318; UEA, Zuckerman Archive, SZ/BBSU/58, Note by the Air Staff, ‘Strategic Bombing in Relation to the Present Russian Offensive’, 25 Jan 1945; Hinsley et al., British Intelligence in the Second World War, vol 3, pt ii, 611.

348. Ian Hunter (ed), Winston & Archie: The Collected Correspondence of Winston Churchill and Archibald Sinclair 1915–1960 (London: 2005), 410–11, Sinclair to Churchill, 26 Jan 1945; Churchill to Sinclair, 26 Jan 1945; Sinclair to Churchill, 27 Jan 1945.

349. CCO, Portal papers, Folder 6, Portal to Churchill, 28 Jan 1945.

350. Webster, Frankland, Strategic Air Offensive, vol 4, 301, Bottomley to Harris, 27 Jan 1945; Sebastian Cox, ‘The Dresden Raids: Why and How’, in Paul Addison, Jeremy Crang (eds), Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945 (London: 2006), 22–5; Hinsley et al., British Intelligence in the Second World War, vol 3, pt ii, 611.

351. CCAC, BUFT 3/51, ‘Strategic Bombing in Reaction to the Present Russian Offensive’, note by the Air Staff for CoS Meeting, 31 Jan 1945, 1.

352. Davis, Carl A. Spaatz, 546–8.

353. S. M. Plokhy, Yalta: The Price of Peace (New York: 2010), 213–14; AFHRA, K239.046-38, Joseph Angell, ‘Historical Analysis of the 14–15 February Bombings of Dresden’ [n.d. but 1953], 12.

354. RAFM, Harris papers, H136, ‘Notes on Bomber Command’ [n.d. but 1961 or 1962], 7.

355. Freeman, The Mighty Eighth, 432; Davis, Carl A. Spaatz, 551–3; Groehler, Bombenkrieg, 388–9, 398–400; Richard Overy, ‘The Post-War Debate’, in Addison, Crang (eds), Firestorm, 129–30.

356. Götz Bergander, Dresden im Luftkrieg: Vorgeschichte – Zerstörung – Folgen (Munich: 1985), 256–7; Groehler, Bombenkrieg, 412; Matthias Gretzschel, ‘Dresden im Dritten Reich’, in Hamburg und Dresden im Dritten Reich: Bombenkrieg and Kriegsende. Sieben Beiträge (Hamburg: 2000), 97.

357. Tami Davis Biddle, ‘Wartime Reactions’, in Addison, Crang (eds), Firestorm, 107–10.

358. Ibid., 113.

359. CamUL, Boyle papers, Add 9429/1B, Harris to Boyle, 13 June 1979.

360. CCAC, BUFT 3/51, HQ Bomber Command, ‘Bomber Command’s “Battle of the Ruhr”’, 24 Mar 1945.

361. Greenhous et al., Crucible of War, 862.

362. CCO, Portal papers, Folder 6, Portal to Churchill, 20 Apr 1945; Hunter, Winston & Archie, 414, Churchill to Sinclair, 19 Apr 1945.

363. Webster, Frankland, Strategic Air Offensive, vol 4, 183–4, Strategic Directive no. 4, 16 Apr 1945.

364. Davis, Carl A. Spaatz, 582–4.

365. Mets, Master of Airpower, 283–4.

366. TNA, HO 196/30, RE8 Report, 25 May 1945.

367. LC, Spaatz papers, Box 143, Spaatz to commanding generals, 8th, 9th and 15th Air Forces, 24 Aug 1944.

368. Arnold, Global Mission, 490–91; USSBS, ‘Over-all Report (European War)’, Washington, DC, 30 Sept 1945, vol 2, ix; Gordon Daniels (ed), A Guide to the Reports of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (London: 1981), xix–xxii; Gian Gentile, How Effective is Strategic Bombing? Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo (New York: 2000), 33–54.

369. NC, Cherwell papers, F247, Churchill to Sinclair, 3 Jan 1945; on the problems surrounding the survey see Sebastian Cox (ed), The Strategic Air War Against Germany, 1939–1945: The Official Report of the British Bombing Survey Unit (London: 1998), xvii–xix.