SZ/BSGF/12/1 - Comments by SZ on paper on density of attack in relation to air support for Operation Overlord 1944

SZ/BSGF/12/1

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Comments by SZ on paper on density of attack in relation to air support for Operation Overlord 1944

1944

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Contains eight copies of a detailed critique submitted to Air Chief Marshal Leigh-Mallory of a paper on close support operations by RAF Bomber Command produced by the Directorate of Bomber Operations (D.B.Ops), Air Ministry. D.B.Ops did not, on balance, favour the use of heavy bombers in close support of ground forces. In his critique SZ expressed the view that evidence of Bomber Command’s performance indicated that its heavy bomber forces were capable of executing such operations successfully and rebutted many points in the paper from that perspective.