PP/30/1/6/5/3 - [Letter, Jack Pritchard to Barbara Cooper, 23/6/43]

Reference code

PP/30/1/6/5/3

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, Jack Pritchard to Barbara Cooper, 23/6/43]

Date/s

1943

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Subject

World War, 1939-1945
Bombing, Aerial
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, German
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British
Britain, Battle of, 1940

Creator

Pritchard, John Craven,

Creator

Cooper, Barbara,

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Pritchard thanks Barbara Cooper for the kindness she has shown Jeremy [Pritchard] and refers to the state of play in the [Second World] War. Pritchard is convinced he did the right thing sending [Jonathan and Jeremy] to the United States as the chance of Britain surviving "after the fall of Europe was astonishingly small". He now recognises the vital role played by the R.A.F. in defeating the German air force. But he believes the "war is now taking, in many ways, a very terrible turn. The bombing that we are doing to Germany is so many times worse than what they did to us". London, Plymouth and Coventry do not compare with "the horror and devastation we are handing back; and while it is so clearly and obviously necessary that we should do so, it does not in any way make it less horrible". Pritchard says that since the defeat of the German air force life has almost reverted to how it was during the "phoney war".

PP - Pritchard Papers
- PP/30 - [Family Papers]
  - PP/30/1 - [Correspondence and papers relating to immediate family]
    - PP/30/1/6 - Correspondence with various people in United States and Canada regarding Jonathan and Jeremy Pritchard]
      - PP/30/1/6/5 - [Correspondence with Barbara Cooper]
        PP/30/1/6/5/3 - [Letter, Jack Pritchard to Barbara Cooper, 23/6/43]