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.
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"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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