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SZ/AEAF/7/1/29 - [Letter, D.A.C. Dewdney to SZ, 5/5/44]

Reference code
SZ/AEAF/7/1/29
Level of description
Item
Title
[Letter, D.A.C. Dewdney to SZ, 5/5/44]
Date/s
1944
Quantity & Format
2 leaves
Creator
Dewdney, Duncan Alexander Cox,
Creator
Urmston, C. W. B.
Administrative/Biographical history
recipient
Creator
Zuckerman, Solly,
Administrative/Biographical history
recipient
Scope and content
Covering note and tabulated list of targets (dated both 4/5/44 and 5/5/44) giving "the complete set of figures for estimated casualties on the 27 targets transferred from IX Air Force to Bomber Command as requested in Group Captain Urmston's letter, SHAEF/35/Air Intell., of the 29 April 1944"

The table relates "ideal tonnage" to population in the "spill" area at 3.5 persons per house and to estimated number killed for each of 27 rail centres in France and Belgium.

An MS draft of the table is in sub series [SZ/AEAF/7/3].
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