SZ/OEMU/47/12/26 - Vulnerability of bombers to H.A.A. fire, October 1944

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/47/12/26

Level of description

Item

Title

Vulnerability of bombers to H.A.A. fire, October 1944

Date/s

1944

Quantity & Format

8 leaves

Subject

United States. Air Force, 8th. Operational Research Section
United States. Air Force, 9th. Operational Research Section
United Kingdom. Air Force. Bomber Command. Operational Research Section

Creator

Mott, N. F.

Scope and content

A.C. 7695

SD/FP. 334

Contains the results of investigations to discover the total number of aircraft hit by fragments from time fuzed A.A. shell, the average number of fragment holes in each damaged bomber, and the relative number of bombers having one, two, three or more holes. The investigation was a collaboration between the operational research sections of Bomber Command, and the United States Eighth and Ninth air forces.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
  - SZ/OEMU/47 - [OEMU. Fragmentation Panel]
    - SZ/OEMU/47/12 - [OEMU. Fragmentation Panel. Anti-aircraft shells]
      - SZ/OEMU/47/12/26 - Vulnerability of bombers to H.A.A. fire, October 1944

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