Strategic bombing during World War II (English Wikipedia)

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Paul Martin (1990). Invisibles vainqueurs: exploits et sacrifice de l'Armée de l'air en 1939–1940. Y. Michelet. p. 345. ISBN 9782905643025.
Harris, Arthur Travers (1995). Despatch on war operations, 23rd February, 1942, to 8th May, 1945. Cass Series: Studies in Air Power. Vol. 3. Psychology Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7146-4692-3.
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Kaplan, Fred (1983). The Wizards of Armageddon. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-42444-2.p.43
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Philip A. Seaton (2007). Japan's Contested War Memories: The 'Memory Rifts' in Historical Consciousness of World War II. Routledge. p. 91. ISBN 9781134150052.

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"The Role of Bombing in World War II". Archived from the original on 29 December 2011.

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Holland, Edward C. Fighting with a conscience: the effects of an American sense of morality on the evolution of strategic bombing campaigns. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Press, 1992

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