| 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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