SZ/BSU/4/3 - [Italy - Planning]
Reference code
SZ/BSU/4/3
Level of description
File
Title
[Italy - Planning]
Date/s
1942-1944
1946
1946
Quantity & Format
66 items Mixed
Subject
Railways
World War, 1939-1945 -- Transport
Communication
Railways -- Bombing, Aerial
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy
World War, 1939-1945 -- Transport
Communication
Railways -- Bombing, Aerial
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy
Scope and content
Covers the operation to secure Italy. Communications and transport infrastructure are the main concern of the Allied aerial bombing attempts to block off all routes from Northern Italy to Southern Italy. Maps of some of the areas are included.
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SZ - Zuckerman Archive
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SZ/BSU - [Bombing Survey Unit]
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SZ/BSU/4 - [BSU. Sicily and Italy]
- SZ/BSU/4/3 - [Italy - Planning]
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SZ/BSU/4 - [BSU. Sicily and Italy]
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SZ/BSU - [Bombing Survey Unit]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/1 - Reggio di Calabria - Map
- SZ/BSU/4/3/2 - Bova - Map
- SZ/BSU/4/3/3 - Messina - Map
- SZ/BSU/4/3/4-5 - [Typescript notes on aiming points for interruption of communications in Southern Italy]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/6 - Memorandum on the selection of H.E. bombs and fuzes [sic] for industrial targets, 8/7/43
- SZ/BSU/4/3/7 - Photographic interpretation of defences in Reggio area, 21/7/43
- SZ/BSU/4/3/8 - Photographic interpretation of defences and communications in the toe of Italy, 26/7/43
- SZ/BSU/4/3/9 - Bombing of communications in support of Army operations, 28/7/43
- SZ/BSU/4/3/10-11 - Pattern bombing and bomb release technique
- SZ/BSU/4/3/12 - [Letter, SZ to L.T. Pankhurst, 6/8/43]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/13 - Operation "Buttress": reduction of ground defences by aerial bombardment
- SZ/BSU/4/3/14 - Roads, 4/9/43
- SZ/BSU/4/3/15 - General recommendations for bombs and fuzes to be used in attacks against aerodromes, 10/9/43
- SZ/BSU/4/3/16-20 - Choice and fusing of bombs for cratering roads, railway tracks, runways, etc.
- SZ/BSU/4/3/21 - [Draft workings for the choice and fusing of bombs for transport disruption]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/22-24 - Tactical bombing force, c.24/10/43
- SZ/BSU/4/3/25 - [MS notes on bombing survey]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/26 - [Memorandum on miscellaneous topics]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/27 - Attacks on airfields
- SZ/BSU/4/3/28 - Analysis of photo reconnaissance
- SZ/BSU/4/3/29 - Preliminary note on the effect of bombing on the railway system of Southern Italy, 24/10/43
- SZ/BSU/4/3/30 - [Letter, Air Commodore Sinclair to SZ, 26/10/43]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/31 - Photographs of craters
- SZ/BSU/4/3/32 - Notes of attacks on S. Italian railways
- SZ/BSU/4/3/33 - Attacks on bridges, 28/10/43
- SZ/BSU/4/3/34 - Attacks on railroad and road communications: Italy, 1/9/43 - 31/10/43
- SZ/BSU/4/3/35-39 - The bombing of industrial targets, 8/11/43
- SZ/BSU/4/3/40 - [Letter, SZ to Air Commodore Sinclair, 14/12/43]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/41 - [Letter, SZ to Air Commodore Sinclair, 24/12/43]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/42 - Interpretation Report No. D.115A, 17/11/43
- SZ/BSU/4/3/43 - [Aerial photograph of Wiener Neustadt]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/44 - Detailed interpretation report no. D. 118, 16/11/43
- SZ/BSU/4/3/45 - [Photographs of Turin bombing, 9/11/43]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/46 - Report on the effort requirements for bridges Spezia-Remini railroads, 14/3/44
- SZ/BSU/4/3/47 - Considerations concerning air attack on enemy rail communications in Italy
- SZ/BSU/4/3/48 - Interdiction of enemy supplies to Central Italy, 21/3/44
- SZ/BSU/4/3/49 - The employment of bombers and fighter bombers in co-operation with the Army, 4/44
- SZ/BSU/4/3/50 - Analysis of tactical attacks on bridges and viaducts
- SZ/BSU/4/3/51 - Railroad traffic interdiction - Central Italy March - April 1944, 1/5/44
- SZ/BSU/4/3/52 - [Map of Italy's railroads, 9/1/43]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/53 - Estimated capacity of the main railroad links of Italy, 23/11/42
- SZ/BSU/4/3/54 - [Letter, C.P. Kindleberger to SZ, 10/5/44]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/55 - [Letter, C.P. Kindleberger to SZ, 17/5/44]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/56 - [Letter, SZ to C.P. Kindleberger, 21/5/44]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/57 - [Bombing accuracy between 3/44 and 5/44]
- SZ/BSU/4/3/58 - Communications attacks in the MTO... 17/3/44 - 5/6/44
- SZ/BSU/4/3/59 - Air support operations in the MTO, 15/6/44
- SZ/BSU/4/3/60 - Azon bombing, 15/6/44
- SZ/BSU/4/3/61 - Air Intelligence: Weekly Summary no. 80, 29/5/44
- SZ/BSU/4/3/62-63 - Extract from invasion report no. 11, 24/8/44
- SZ/BSU/4/3/64 - The pattern of air attacks on communications in Italy, 3/46
- SZ/BSU/4/3/65 - Map of Bagnara Calabra
- SZ/BSU/4/3/66 - The central blue: recollections and reflections [Extract]