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SZ/AEAF/1/2 - [AEAF Planning. Outline Air Plan]

Reference code
SZ/AEAF/1/2
Level of description
Sub file
Title
[AEAF Planning. Outline Air Plan]
Date/s
1944
Quantity & Format
48 items
Creator
Zuckerman, Solly, 1904-1993
Creator
Kingston-McCloughry, Edgar James.
Administrative/Biographical history
recipient
Scope and content
Contains 48 items, all of which are drafts of the text of the air plan circulated in a final form on 3/3/44 as "Overlord". Employment of Bomber Forces. The drafts were produced between early January and the beginning of March 1944 and are largely the work of SZ and Air Commodore E.J. Kingston-McCloughry, Chief of Operations, AEAF. They show a shift in emphasis in relation to the means of disrupting transportation from widespread tactical attacks beginning a few weeks before D-Day to a programme of longer term strategic attacks on the rail infrastructure of north-west Europe complementary to a tactical programme.
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