1 www.iwm.org.uk/history/tips-for-american-servicemen-in-britain-during-the-second-world-war.
2 See www.americanairmuseum.com, part of the Imperial War Museum’s website.
3 For Fielder’s obituary, published by several Pittsburgh newspapers, see www.legacy.com/obituaries/postgazette/obituary.aspx?n=morton-irwin-fiedler.
4 Gordon Fenwick interviewed in the 384th Group magazine. As well as having an entry on the American Air Museum site, Fenwick has been interviewed frequently in the US press and television.
5 Ibid.
6 Pleasingly, the idea of the ‘friendly invasion’ is now a tourist attraction in Norfolk – see www.visitnorfolk.co.uk/things-to-do/Friendly-Invasion-in-Norfolk.aspx.
7 The term ‘spillage’ appears in Charles W. McArthur, Operations Analysis in the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force in World War II (American Mathematical Society, 1990).
8 Mentioned in an introduction to the subject at the Imperial War Museum by Carl Warner at www.iwm.org.uk/history/american-airmen-in-britain-during-the-second-world-war.
9 More information (plus pictures) at the American Air Museum website, http://www.americanairmuseum.com/place/136207.
10 In my The Secret Life of Bletchley Park (Aurum, 2010), Wrens recalled the urgency to attend a concert by Glenn Miller and his band at Bedford, which was close to the codebreaking centre.
11 Fenwick, in 384th Group magazine.
12 Eugene Spearman, ww2awartobewon.com/wwii-articles/bremen-mission-384th-bomb-group/.
13 There is a very interesting essay about James Stewart’s acting career before and after the war by Geoffrey O’Brien in the New York Review of Books, 2 November 2006, which, although it only touches on his bombing experiences, none the less suggests that there was a duality to Stewart’s screen persona after the war.
14 Thomas Childers, ‘“Facilis descensus averni est”: The Allied Bombing of Germany and the Issue of German Suffering’, Central European History, vol. 38, no. 1 (March 2005).
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 For background see Smithsonian Institute, airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/messerschmitt-me-262-1a-schwalbe-swallow.
18 Fenwick, in 384th Group magazine.