SZ/BBSU/58/13 - [Minute, Charles Portal to Norman Bottomley, 26/1/45]

Reference code

SZ/BBSU/58/13

Level of description

Item

Title

[Minute, Charles Portal to Norman Bottomley, 26/1/45]

Date/s

1945

Quantity & Format

2 leaves

Subject

World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fuel supplies

Creator

Portal, Charles Frederick Algernon,

Creator

Bottomley, Norman Howard,

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Portal does not think the time is right for attacks on Berlin, nor does he see any large-scale diversion of strategic air effort to the western battle is justifiable. Oil, Portal feels, must remain the priority target.

Photocopy. On second leaf of Bottomley's minute to Portal.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/BBSU - British Bombing Survey Unit
  - SZ/BBSU/58 - [BBSU. Air Ministry files. Documents used in the BBSU overall report III]
    - SZ/BBSU/58/13 - [Minute, Charles Portal to Norman Bottomley, 26/1/45]

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