Notes to pages 677-82 1003 Maritime War,' IV , part B, 41 I , DHist 79/599; No 6 Group Circular, 15 May 1943, DHist 18r.009 (05599) 67 No 6 Group analysis of results, DHist 74/250; No 6 Group circulars, 19 May and 6 June 1943, DHist 18r.009 (02482); AHB, 'The RAF in Maritime War,' IV , part B, 41 l, DHist 79/599; Middlebrook and Everitt, BCWD, 382 68 No 6 Group NSO to NSO Bomber Command, 2 Aug. 1943, DHist 18r.003 (03088); Middlebrook and Everitt, BCWD, 362-409; No 6 Group analysis of results, DHist 74/250 69 No 6 Group EO to IO, 5 Sept. 1944, and No 6 Group analyses of operations, DHist 18r.003 (04714); Edwards to Brookes, 16 Sept. 1943, DHist r8r.009 (01925); Bomber Command, 'Report on serviceability of GEE, 28 May-30 June 1943,' 8 July 1943, DHist 18r.003 (03889) 70 Bomber Command monthly reports on casualties, PRO Air 14/364, and No 6 Group analyses of operations, DHist 18r.003 (04714) 71 Harris to CAS, IO Jan. 1943, Portal Papers, copy in DHist 87/89, folder IO (1943), and Harris to Balfour, 19 Jan. 1943, PRO Air 20/3798 72 Brookes diary, 23 April 1943, Brookes biog. file, DHist 73 Ibid., 15 Feb. 1943; S/L P.T. Green, 'Service history,' DHist 18r.009 (04254) 74 Extract from staff conference, IO March 1943, and Wait to AOC-in-C, 12 March 43, DHist 18r.009 (0769); T. Sawyer, Only Owls and Bloody Fools Fly at Night (London 1982), 68 75 Siemon to bases and stations, l Feb. 1943, Brookes to same, I March 1943, and Siemon to same, 19 March 1943, all DHist l8r.003 (0230); No 6 Group monthly summaries of operations and training activities, DHist 181.003 (0296); No 26 OTU to No 92 Group, 1 March 1943, PRO Air 14/485; Harris to Brookes, 3 May 1943, and Brookes to Harris, 2 l May 1943, replying to Harris to Brookes, 21 May 1943, DHist 18r.009 (01925) 76 No 6 Group tactical report No 6, June Operations, 4 July 1943, DHist 18r.003 (04472) 77 Brookes to Capel, 3 June 1943, DHist 18r.009 (01920) 78 Bomber Command ORS draft report No B 147, sent to AOC-in-c, 10 July 1943, PRO Air 14/1800 79 Bomber Command report No B147, 15 July 1943, DHist 18r.009 (01925) 80 S.C. Britton, 'Halifax losses; the position at 4 Group, June 1943,' and Dickens to Saundby, minute 13, 30 June 1943, PRO Air 14/1794; Saundby to AOC No 6 Group, 17 July 1943, DHist 18r.009 (01925) 8r Edwards to Power, report No 15, 19 July 1943, Power Papers, copy in DHist 79/721 , folder 14; Brookes to Saundby, 21 July 1943, PRO Air 14/1800; Brookes to Saundby, 3 Aug. 1943, and Edwards to Brookes, 16 Sept. 1943, DHist 18r.009 (01925) 82 S.C. Britton, 'The effects of operational experience in No 6 Group,' l 5 Aug. 1943, DHist 18r.003 (04840); Bomber Command ORS, 'A further comment on 6 Group losses,' 7 Oct. 1943, PRO Air 1411794 83 Bomber Command ORS, 'A further comment on 6 Group losses,' 7 Oct. 1943, PRO Air 14/1794 !004 Notes to pages 682-7 84 [RCAF Overseas Headquarters ORS], 'A review of bomber losses on night operations with special reference to No 6 (RCAF) Group (January 1st, 1943 to September 30th, 1943),' DHist 181.003 (04223) 85 Bomber Command ORS, Report No B198, 'A note on comparative losses in No 4 and No 6 Groups' [Feb. 1944], PRO Air 14/1794; RCAF Overseas Headquarters ORS, 'Addendum No l to review of bomber losses on night operations with special reference to No 6 (RCAF) Group,' 13 Jan. 1944, DHist 18r.003 (04223); Harris to Breadner, 3 March 1944, PRO Air 14/1794; No 6 Group to Breadner, 27 Jan. r944, DHist 181.005 (0503) 86 Harris to Sinclair, 30 Dec. 1942, PRO Air 14/3512; see also note by c-in-c, 'Lancaster II and Halifax III,' PRO Air 19/354. 87 Chapman to regional controllers (except Northern Ireland), 2 Jan. 1943, PRO Avia ro/269; Harris to Sinclair, r3 May 1943, PRO Air 14/3513 88 Harris to Linnell, 16 Oct. 1942, Harris Papers, copy in DHist 87/51, folder H91; DDG Stats, 'The supply of Jabour and the future of the aircraft programme,' 19 May 1943, PRO Avia ro/269 89 S.C. Britten, 'Halifax losses: the position of 4 Group, June 1943,' PRO Air 14/1794; Bomber Command to groups, 'Notes to pilots on the handling of controls of heavy bombers in evasive manoeuvres,' [June 1943?] DHist 18r.009 (07652); Harris to Freeman, 30 June 1943, Harris Papers, copy in DHist 87/51, folder H-85 ; Harris to Portal, 4 Feb 1943, Portal Papers, copy in DHist 87/89, folder IOA (1943); Bomber Command Operations Record Book, June 1944, Armaments section, 978ff, DHist; AHB, Armament, II, 98-9; Harris to Brookes, 3 Feb. 1943, and No 6 Group to Bomber Command, 9 Feb. 1943, DHist l8r.009 (01568); BDU report No 13, I May 1943, PRO Air 14/2588 90 Corball to DBOps, 23 June 1943, and 'Bomber defence policy; minutes of meeting held 24 June 1943,' PRO Air 20/4796; AHB, Armament, rr , 99-TOO 91 Harris to Portal, 16 June 1943, Portal Papers, copy in DHist 87/89, folder lOA (1943); Bomber Command to groups, 9 Aug. r943, DHist 18r.009 (04956); Price, Instruments of Darkness, 128-30, 139-40; Bomber Command, Signals Branch, 'War in the Ether,' Oct. 1945, lO-I6; AHB, Bomber Command narrative, v, 76, 226, DHist 86/286; Middlebrook and Everitt, BCWD, 399-401 92 Bomber Command, Ops l(e) memorandum, 18 June 1943, PRO Air 14/3947; 'Minutes of 5th and 6th meetings on radio and navigation policy,' 15 June and 3 Aug. 1943, DHist 181.009 (05306); No 6 Group to bases, stations, and squadrons, 9 July 1943, DHist 181.009 (03004); Bomber Command to Groups, 9 Aug. 1943, DHist 18r.009 (04956); Bottomley to Harris, 30 July 1943, and Bomber Command to ACAS Ops, 15 Aug. 1943, PRO Air 14/69; 'Minutes of a conference held at Air Ministry, 18/19 Aug 1943,' PRO Air 2/4468 93 6 Group to bases and stations, 2 July 1943, DHist 18r.009 (05078) 94 Bomber Command, 'Concentration en route,' 13 July 1943, DHist 18r.009 (01905) 95 Extracts of conference under chairmanship of Generalfeldmarschall Milch, 6 July 1943, Milch Papers, translation in DHist SGR II 217, reel 21 Notes to pages 687-94 1005 96 Ibid., Price, Instruments of Darkness, 146; Herrmann, Eagle's Wings, 168ff 97 Aders, German Night Fighter Force, 85, 126; David Pritchard, The Radar War (Wellingborough 1989), 155 98 Oberst a.D. Mirr, 'Development of German aircraft armament to war's end,' USAF Historical Study No 193, DHist 81/960, 9off; 'Schrage Musik,' Jiigerblatt, XVI, July-Aug. 1967, 16-18; Aders, German Night Fighter Force, 66-7; Heron's interrogation report, 'Questionnaire for returned aircrew - loss of bomber aircraft,' in DHist 181.001 (024) 99 Grabmann, 'German air defense, 1933-1945,' June 1957, USAF Historical Study No 164, DHist 86/451, frames 9IOff and w71ff; Galland's comments at the conference chaired by Milch, 5 Jan. 1943, in Milch Papers, DHist SGR II 2 I7, reel 18, frames 399(}-9; minutes of the conference chaired by Goring and Milch, 18 March 1943, Milch Papers, copy in DHist SGR II 217, reel 62, frames 5462-500, 5546-g CHAPTER 19: INTO THE ELECTGRONIC AGE, HAMBURG AND AFTER l Bomber Command operations order No 173, 27 May 1943, DHist 18r.009 (06792); Martin Middlebrook, The Battle of Hamburg (London 1980), 93-1 q; Martin Middlebrook, The Berlin Raids (London 1988), 8ff; Gordon Musgrove, Operation Gomorrah, (London 1981), l-13 2 Webster and Frankland, SAO, IV, l 53-4; 'The Bomber's Baedeker,' DHist 18 l .003 (03993) 3 Craven and Cate, Army Air Forces, TI , 349, 356-66; 'The Bomber's Baedeker,' DHist 18r.003 (03993) 4 Webster and Frankland, SAO, II, 18 5 Harris to Eaker, 15 April 1943, quoted in Webster and Frankland, SAO, II, 18 6 Portal to Arnold, 15 April 1943, quoted in Webster and Frankland, SAO, II, 19; AHB, Bomber Command narrative, v, 73, DHist 86/286 7 Combined bombing offensive plan as approved by the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 14 May 1943, quoted in Webster and Frankland, SAO, II, 23- 4 and IV, 158-60; Craven and Cate, Army Air Forces, II, 366-74; AHB, Bomber Command narrative, v, 7(}-l, DHist 86/286; Pointblank directive, IO June 1943, quoted in Webster and Frankland, SAO, IV, 158-60 8 Bomber Command to groups, 19 Jan. 42 , PRO Air 14/763, but see also Portal to Churchill, 15 Oct. 1943, PRO Air 19/189; Bomber Command operations order No 173, 27 May 1943, DHist 18r.009 (06792); Middlebrook, The Battle of Hamburg, 93-117, 23g-72; Middlebrook and Everitt, BCWD, 413-14; Mus­ grove, Operation Gomorrah, 1-13. 9 Bomber Command ORS report No s98, 19 Aug. 1943, PRO Air 14/1800 IO USAFE, 'German air defenses: Tactical employment of night-fighting in the German Air Force,' 6 March 1946, DHist 73/1506, reel 2, frame 535, and Grabmann, 'German air defense, 1933-1945,' June 1952, USAF Historical Study no 164, DHist 86/451, frames 903-4; Bomber Command, Signals Branch, 'War in the Ether,' Oct. 1945, 33-7; Price, Instruments of Darkness, 124-49 1006 Notes to pages 695-8 l l Cajus Bekker [Hans Dieter Berenbrooke] The Luftwaffe War Diaries (New York 1966), 457-8 12 Bomber Command ORS report No s95, 31 July r943, DHist l8r.009 (D2824), and report No s98, 19 Aug.