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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Viscount Trenchard, ‘The Effect of the Rise of Air Power on War’, October 1943, privately printed and distributed, p. 14. 2. Richard J Overy ‘Air Power and the Origins of Deterrence Theory before 1939’, Journal of Strategic Studies, (Vol. 15, No. 1, 1992), pp. 73–101. 3. See for example P Meilinger ‘Trenchard and “Morale Bombing”: the Evolution of a Royal Air Force Doctrine before World War II’, The Journal of Military History (Vol. 60, No. 2, 1996), pp. 243–70. 4. National Archives II, College Park, Maryland, RG18/223, Box 1 RAF War Manual Part I, p. 1. 5. Figures from M Armitage, The Royal Air Force: An Illustrated History (London: Weidenfeld Military, 1993), pp. 277–8. 6. See for example Ian Gooderson, Air Power at the Battlefront: Allied Close Air Support in Europe 1943–45 (London: Routledge, 1998). Additional informationNotes on contributorsRichard OveryRichard Overy is Professor of History at Exeter University. He has written extensively on the Second World War. His book, The Air War 1939–1945, was re-issued in a second edition in 2006
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