SZ/AEAF/1/17/20-21 - [Railroad targets allotted to Bomber Command, VIIIth AIr Force, US IXth Air Force, US XVth Air Force]

Reference code

SZ/AEAF/1/17/20-21

Level of description

Item

Title

[Railroad targets allotted to Bomber Command, VIIIth AIr Force, US IXth Air Force, US XVth Air Force]

Date/s

1944

Quantity & Format

4 leaves

Scope and content

Four roneoed tables headed "Appendix B", Sections A-D listing rail centres targetted for air attack in support of Operation Overlord in Germany and Occupied territory (France and Belgium) according to the Command to which their attack was allocated. The tables give target number and estimated number of [civilians?] killed. Columns for data on target priority, category and date are blank. Footnotes indicate that these are revised lists with additional targets and re-allocation of some targets.

Copy [SZ/AEAF/1/17/20] annotated in MS by SZ (circa 1974) "This is the analysis I had done for Tedder before last [War Cabinet] Defence Committee meeting". Copy [SZ/AEAF/1/17/21] heavily annotated to indicate those targets attacked, and with additional targets listed, and with an MS note "Please return to F/L Ford Hut 83 AEAF".

Two copies.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/AEAF - [Allied Expeditionary Air Force]
  - SZ/AEAF/1 - [AEAF Planning]
    - SZ/AEAF/1/17 - [AEAF Planning. Allocation of railway targets between Commands, with bomb estimates and numbers of aiming points.]
      - SZ/AEAF/1/17/20-21 - [Railroad targets allotted to Bomber Command, VIIIth AIr Force, US IXth Air Force, US XVth Air Force]

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