SZ/BSU/5/1/66 - [Letter, SZ to Patrick Blackett, 29/10/43]

Reference code

SZ/BSU/5/1/66

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, SZ to Patrick Blackett, 29/10/43]

Date/s

1943

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Personal name

Legentilhomme, Paul Louis, 1884-1975
Bouscat, [---?], (of the French Air Force)
Rapkine, Louis

Subject

Bombing, Aerial
Bombsights
Scientists

Creator

Zuckerman, Solly, 1904-1993

Creator

Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, 1897-1974

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Refers to bomb sights and bombing formations. Individual bombing is thought to give better results than formation bombing of specific pin-point targets.

Bouscat and Le Gentilhomme were sympathetic to Rapkine's proposal [to employ French scientists in operational research in the United Kingdom].

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/BSU - [Bombing Survey Unit]
  - SZ/BSU/5 - [BSU. Correspondence and memoranda]
    - SZ/BSU/5/1 - [BSU. Correspondence and memoranda, 1943]
      - SZ/BSU/5/1/66 - [Letter, SZ to Patrick Blackett, 29/10/43]

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