1 Interviewed in various American newspapers. His war records can be seen at 384thbombgroup.com.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Overy, The Bombing War.
5 Cited in Childers, ‘“Facilis descensus averni est”’. In 1982 Fussell wrote a searingly powerful essay about his war experiences – and the horror of that winter of 1944/45 – for Harper’s magazine which can be read at harpers.org/sponsor/thewar/wwiiharpers/my-war-how-i-got-irony-in-the-infantry/.
6 Overy, The Bombing War.
7 DCA, file 107, for this and what follows.
8 DCA, file 533.
9 DCA, file 802, for this and what follows.
10 As noted on the IWM site americanairmuseum.com.
11 DCA, file 475.
12 DCA, file 477.