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Posted Sunday, February 15, 2004

Source: National Archives, Washington DC: Record Group RG.218 (U.S. Joint Chief of Staff): meetings of the [US] Joint Chiefs of Staff and [Anglo-American] Combined Chiefs of Staff, file ABC 337 (14th Sept, 1944) Section 4.


 

Extracts from the meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 176th meeting September 14, 1944.
 

"General Arnold said that he understood the British objected to the Combined Chiefs of Staff recording their decision that Germany should be bombed for morale purposes."

(This paragraph has been amended to read:- "General Arnold said that he understood the British desired that the Combined Chiefs of Staff endorse morale bombing of Germany".)

"Admiral Leahy thought that it would be a mistake for the Combined Chiefs of Staff to record such a decision..."

 


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