SZ/AEAF/1/11 - AEAF Planning. Bridges (Estimates of effort for bridges)
Reference code
SZ/AEAF/1/11
Level of description
Sub file
Title
AEAF Planning. Bridges (Estimates of effort for bridges)
Date/s
1944
Quantity & Format
29 items
Subject
Bridges Bombing, Aerial.
Scope and content
Contains 29 items, 20 of which are multiple copies of papers produced by SZ between 2/5/44 and 6/6/44 on the number of sorties and bombs needed for air attacks on bridges (chiefly railway bridges) in northern France, and his report Times taken for re-establishment of traffic through bombed rail centres and junctions and across rivers, 11/8/44. The remainder are associated papers and tables and two copies of a briefing minute dated 17/8/44 by Sidney Bufton, Director of Bomber Operations, for the Chief of the Air Staff referring to a minute that had been sent to the Prime Minister by Lord Cherwell. In his paper Bufton presents the case for deploying the bomber effort available [for Operation Overlord] to attacks on bridges rather than rail centres.
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SZ - Zuckerman Archive
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SZ/AEAF - [Allied Expeditionary Air Force]
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SZ/AEAF/1 - [AEAF Planning]
- SZ/AEAF/1/11 - AEAF Planning. Bridges (Estimates of effort for bridges)
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SZ/AEAF/1 - [AEAF Planning]
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SZ/AEAF - [Allied Expeditionary Air Force]
- SZ/AEAF/1/11/1 - Attacks on Seine bridges, 2/5/44
- SZ/AEAF/1/11/2 - [Attacks on rail bridges and trains]
- SZ/AEAF/1/11/3 - Bombing of road bridges over the Loire, 5/5/44
- SZ/AEAF/1/11/4 - [Table of bridges damaged by fighter-bomber aircraft]
- SZ/AEAF/1/11/5 - Bridges, 3/6/44
- SZ/AEAF/1/11/6-9 - Effort required for destruction of bridges (Interim Statement), 5/6/44
- SZ/AEAF/1/11/10-19 - Effort required for destruction of bridges [2nd interim Statement)
- SZ/AEAF/1/11/20-26 - Times for re-establishment of traffic through bombed rail centres and junctions and across rivers, 11/8/44
- SZ/AEAF/1/11/27-28 - The Bombing of Bridges (Brief on Lord Cherwell's Minute to the Prime Minister), 17/8/44
- SZ/AEAF/1/11/29 - Attack on bridges