1 Daniel Swift, Bomber County (Hamish Hamilton, 2010).
2 A. C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? (Bloomsbury, 2006).
3 Vera Brittain, Seed of Chaos: What Mass Bombing Really Means (New Vision, 1944).
4 Lord Dowding, a spiritualist, wrote on the subject in, among other books, Twelve Legions of Angels (Jarrolds, 1946).
5 Letter from Michael Scott, RAF Wattisham, published in Andrew Roberts (ed.), Love, Tommy: Letters Home, from the Great War to the Present Day (Osprey Publishing, 2012).
6 Frank Blackman, quoted in Swift, Bomber County.
7 Tripp, The Eighth Passenger.
8 Ibid.
9 Russell Margerison, Boys at War (Northway Publications, 2009).
10 Swift, Bomber County.
11 Hay, ‘An Old Airman’s Tale’.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Swift, Bomber County.
15 Ibid.
16 Bill Burke, ‘The Sheer Thrill of Being a Member of an Operational Marking Team’, www.627squadron.co.uk/afs-bookpartIII-SheerThrill.html.
17 Tripp, The Eighth Passenger.
18 Burke, ‘The Sheer Thrill’.