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Leo Cooper, 1987), 188–9. During the course of the Second World War British industry
churned out 29,288 tanks, production that was augmented by American and Dominion
manufacturing supplied to British forces.
- Committee, I, 38.
- Keegan,Face of Battle, 265–70.
- The figure of 31 percent casualties cited in a previous chapter for First World War
casualties was a ratio of combat casualties among combatant troops. These figures are
based on total mobilization and include noncombat deaths. - These figures are derived from statistics listed in Cook and Stevenson,Handbook of Modern
European History, 133, 167. - Register, 107.
- Ibid., 50.
- The figures cited in Table 10.1 and in the text for total casualties do not include
individuals taken as prisoners of war, unless they were also wounded in the process of
winning the VC. - Mark K. Wells,Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War
(London: Frank Cass, 1995), 152–4. - Johnson,Breakthrough!, 147–57, especially 156–7.
- See Chapter 6 above.
- Charles Messenger,‘Bomber’ Harris and the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939–1945(New York:
St. Martin’s Press, 1984), 17–26. - Sir Arthur Harris,Bomber Offensive(London: Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal, 1990), 43.
- Charles Messenger,‘Bomber’ Harris and the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939–1945 (New York:
St Martin’s Press, 1984), 17. - Ibid., 53; Denis Richards,The Hardest Victory: RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1995), 69. - Register, 240.
- Ibid., 285.
- Air Ministry,Bomber Command Continues(London: HMSO, 1942), 25.
- Messenger,‘Bomber’ Harris, 70–1.
- Harris,Bomber Offensive, 141.
- PRO File AIR 16/757. Bomber Command Operational Order No. 143, 18 April 1942.
- Jack Currie,The Augsburg Raid: The Story of one of the Most Dramatic and Dangerous Raids Ever Mounted
by RAF Bomber Command(London: Goodall Publications, 1987), 93–4. - PRO File AIR 2/5686. Victoria Cross recommendations of Acting Squadron Leader
John Deering Nettleton and Squadron Leader John Seymour Sherwood, 19 April 1942.
Richards,The Hardest Victory, 121–2. - Ibid., 93–4.
- Wells,Courage and Air Warfare, 126–7.
- Due to the small size of the statistical sample, median average (the point at which
half of the sample falls before and half after) was deemed more accurate than a raw
arithmetical average or modified arithmetical average. - Register, 112.
- Ibid., 50.
- Messenger,‘Bomber’ Harris, 39;Harris, Bomber Offensive, 46–7.
- Register, 100, 119.
- Guy Gibson,Enemy Coast Ahead(London: Michael Joseph, 1946), 253–6; Paul Brickhill,
The Dam Busters(London: Evans Brothers, 1951), 32, 56–7.