“No. I never thought…will be England again”： Sylvia Joan Clark oral history, June 2000, Imperial War Museums, London, available at https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80019086.
“I asked Harris…from the British”： James Parton, Air Force Spoken Here: General Ira Eaker and the Command of the Air （Montgomery, AL: Air University Press, 2000）， 152–53.
Material about Frederick Lindemann, his friendship with Churchill, and C. P. Snow’s lectures was featured in a 2017 episode of the Revisionist History podcast, “The Prime Minister and the Prof” （http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/15-the-prime-minister-and-the-prof）。 Quotations from C. P. Snow are from “Science and Government” （Godkin Lecture Series at Harvard University, November 30, 1960）， GBH Archives. For information about Churchill and his spending on alcohol, see David Lough’s No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money （New York: Picador, 2015）， 240.
For more information on the concept of transactive memory, see Daniel M. Wegner, Ralph Erber, and Paula Raymond, “Transactive Memory in Close Relationships,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 61, no. 6 （1991）： 923–29, available at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.466.8153&rep=rep1&type=pdf.
“He would not shrink…professional opponents”： Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, Earl of Birkenhead, The Prof in Two Worlds: The Official Life of Professor F. A. Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell （London: Collins, 1961）， 116.
“He was indeed…relationship with him” and “I define…to my friends”： Roy Harrod, The Prof: A Personal Memoir of Lord Cherwell （London: Macmillan, 1959）， 72, 73.
“The Nazis entered…reap the whirlwind”： Defence: World War II; Air Marshal Harris on Bombing Raids, Reuters via British Pathé, British Paramount newsreel, 1942, available at https://youtu.be/fdoUZtCbsW8?t=32.
Information about the impact of the bombing on Cologne is from Max G. Tretheway, “1,046 Bombers but Cologne Lived,” New York Times, June 2, 1992, available at https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/02/opinion/IHT-1046-bombers-but-cologne-lived.html.
“Sir, you are…kill people: Germans”： Henry Probert, Bomber Harris: His Life and Times; The Biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, Wartime Chief of Bomber Command （London: Greenhill Books, 2001）， 154–55.
“Well, of course people…army advances” and “We weren’t aiming…draw the line?”： Arthur Harris, interview by Mark Andrews, British Forces Broadcasting Service, 1977, Imperial War Museums, London, available at https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80000925.
Chapter Four: “The truest of the
true believers.”
“What in heaven’s…your son”： Charles Griffith, The Quest: Haywood Hansell and American Strategic Bombing in World War II （Montgomery, AL: Air University Press, 1999）， 34. Hansell singing “The Man on the Flying Trapeze” to his men is described on page 120, and the story about Hansell’s meeting and courtship of his wife is told on pages 32–33.
“We have not put…problems to solve”： Ralph H. Nutter, With the Possum and the Eagle: The Memoir of a Navigator’s War Over Germany and Japan （Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2005）， 216.
“In short…reality in it”： Miguel de Cervantes, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Volume 1, trans. John Ormsby （London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885）， available at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5921/5921-h/5921-h.htm.
“Well, the selection…capacity of Germany” and “There was a rain…ball-bearing industry”： Haywood Hansell, talk at the United States Air Force Academy, April 19, 1967, Clark Special Collections Branch, McDermott Library, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO.
Quotations from the 1943 interview with Curtis LeMay are from First U.S. Raid on Germany, Reuters, British Pathé newsreel, 1943, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgO6DX_9z0I.
“The briefings lasted…only comment”： Russell E. Dougherty, interview by Alfred F. Hurley, Arlington, VA, May 24, 2004, University of North Texas Library, Denton, TX, available at https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306813/.
The following quotations are from the Curtis LeMay oral history interview of March 1965, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Montgomery, AL, at http://airforcehistoryindex.org/data/001/000/342.xml: “One of the things…not very good”; “Not only were…over to the Continent”; “Something had to be done…bombsight level”; “All of the people…shoot you down”; “It required I think…too bad to me”; and “I’ll admit some uneasiness…but it worked.”