SZ/AEAF/1/19/3 - [Letter, W.F. Dry to Sir Arthur Tedder, 29/1/44]

Reference code

SZ/AEAF/1/19/3

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, W.F. Dry to Sir Arthur Tedder, 29/1/44]

Date/s

1944

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Creator

Dry, W. F.

Creator

Tedder, Arthur William,

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Covering letter to a paper by the Directorate of Air Tactics, Air Ministry on types of bombs for use against airfields [SZ/AEAF/1/19/4]. Dry refers to a discussion which had taken place between Tedder and the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff on the use of fragmentation bombs and the reasons for the decisions by the RAF not to employ them "extensively against airfields in this theatre [Northwest Europe]".

SZ/AEAF/1/19/4

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/AEAF - [Allied Expeditionary Air Force]
  - SZ/AEAF/1 - [AEAF Planning]
    - SZ/AEAF/1/19 - AEAF Planning. Bombing of airfields
      - SZ/AEAF/1/19/3 - [Letter, W.F. Dry to Sir Arthur Tedder, 29/1/44]

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