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In this episode, the Butt report, what happened next and the arrival of Bomber Harris. Despite this being more than 50 minutes, I’ve skipped some detail e.g. The Singleton report which basically said ‘eh – bit difficult this bombing thing’ nor Tizard’s rubbishing of Cherwell’s Memorandum, nor really the detail of the Cherwell Memorandum. You’ll live. However if you want more on the subject then I recommend the Ofical History of Bomber Command to get into more the civil service fire fights.

Selected Internet Sources
The Butt Report – Transcript from 2014 - https://etherwave.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/butt-report-transcription-tna-pro-air-14-12182.pdf
The Cherwell Memorandum - https://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/reading/Bombing/cherwell.htm
Target for Tonight (1941) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0QOKuGejSU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Blackett - Admiralty Professor in opposition to Bomber Command
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_bombardment_and_international_law#:~:text=In%201977%2C%20Protocol%20I%20was,of%20civilians%20and%20civilian%20objects – International Law pertaining to Ariel Bombardment in 1939…eg there was none
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_Report
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_bombing_directive
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_directive

Selected Bibliography
America’s Pursuit of Precision Bombing 1910-1945, McFarland
Absolute War – Chris Bellamy
Absolute War – The Firebombing of Tokyo
Big Week – James Holland
Black Snow- James M Scott
Bomber Boys – Kevin Wilson
Bomber Command – Max Hastings
Bomber Offensive – Sir Arthur Harris GCB, OBE, AFC
Bomber Command’s War Against Germany, An Official History – Nobel Franklin et al.
The Bomber Mafia – Malcolm Gladwell
Dresden – Sinclair McKay
Dresden; Tuesday….. – Fredrick Taylor
Undaunted and Through Adversity (Vol 1 &2) – Ben Kite
United States Strategic Bombing Survey (European War) (USSBS) Sept 1945 – Var. - https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101634748-bk