SZ/AEAF/2/3/1 - Interference with rail traffic from Germany to France, 11/8/44

Reference code

SZ/AEAF/2/3/1

Level of description

Item

Title

Interference with rail traffic from Germany to France, 11/8/44

Date/s

1944

Quantity & Format

2 pp.

Creator

Brant, E. W.

Scope and content

Paper sets out ways in which air operations could disrupt the movement of supplies and troop reinforcements from Germany to France: cutting lines and attacking bridges; attacking rail centres in Belgium and Eastern France; or by attacking rail centres in the area of the frontiers between Germany and Belgium and France. The last is the method which Brant favours, and he provides a list of suitable targets. He also suggests complementing these operations with attacks on rail centres further east, well within Germany, and with selective attacks on bridges, also further east "than those detailed in the 'S.H.A.E.F. Third Line of Interdiction".

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/AEAF - [Allied Expeditionary Air Force]
  - SZ/AEAF/2 - [Tedder and SHAEF Control]
    - SZ/AEAF/2/3 - [Tedder and SHAEF Control. Extension of railway programme]
      - SZ/AEAF/2/3/1 - Interference with rail traffic from Germany to France, 11/8/44

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