General Accounts:

• Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945, Williamson Murray
• United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (Europe)

  UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  • Strategic Air Offensive against Germany, Volume 1: Preparation, Webster, Charles and Noble Frankland.
  • Strategic Air Offensive against Germany, Volume 2: Endeavour, Webster, Charles and Noble Frankland.
  • Strategic Air Offensive against Germany, Volume 3: Victory, Webster, Charles and Noble Frankland.
  • Strategic Air Offensive against Germany, Volume 4: Annexes and Appendices, Webster, Charles and Noble Frankland.

  • The Royal Air Force, 1939-1945, Volume 1. Fight at Odds, Richards, Denis.
  • The Royal Air Force, 1939-1945, Volume 2. Fight Avails, Richards, Denis and Hilary Saunders.
  • The Royal Air Force, 1939-1945, Volume 3. Fight is Won, Saunders, Hilary St George.

  • The Responsibilities of a Prisoner of War (Air Publication 1548--RAF)

  THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  • RCAF Overseas: The First Four Years
  • RCAF Overseas: The Fifth Year
  • RCAF Overseas: The Sixth Year

  OFFICIAL HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  • New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force, Volume 1: European Theatre, September 1939-December 1942
  • New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force, Volume 2: European Theatre, January 1942-May 1945
  • New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force, Volume 3: Mediterranean and Middle East, South-East Asia

  The U.S. Army Air Forces in the Second World War

  THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II
  • Vol. 1 -- Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942
  • Vol. 2 -- Europe: TORCH to POINTBLANK, August 1942 to December 1943
  • Vol. 3 -- Europe: ARGUMENT to V-E Day, January 1944 to May 1945

  Other U.S. Army Air Forces Histories:

  • The Strategic Air War Against Germany and Japan: A Memoir, by Maj. Gen. Haywood S. Hansell, Jr. USAF (Ret.)

  • Sunday Punch in Normandy: The Tactical Use of Heavy Bombardment in the Normandy Invasion [Wings at War Series, No. 2]
  • The Battle Against the U-Boat in the American Theater [The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II]
  • Leaping the Atlantic Wall: Army Air Forces Campaigns in Western Europe, 1942-1945 [The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II]
  • Preemptive Defense: Allied Air Power Versus Hitler's V-Weapons, 1943-1945 [The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II]
  • D-Day 1944: Air Power Over the Normandy Beaches and Beyond [The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II]

  • The Early Operations of the Eighth Air Force and the Origins of the Combined Bomber Offensive, 17 August 1942 to 10 June 1943
  • The Combined Bomber Offensive, 1 January to 6 June 1944
  • The War Against the Luftwaffe: AAF Counter-Air Operations, April 1943-June 1944
  • Ninth Air Force in the ETO [European Theater of Operations], 16 October 1943 to 16 April 1944

  • Recon in XIX Tactical Air Command, Report, 1945
  • Always Out Front: The Bradley Story, (B-24 Bombardier in the Eighth Air Force--excellent mission details)

Specific Campaigns:

The V-Weapons:

• Enemy Air Attack and the Canadian Army in the United Kingdom, 1943-45: The V-Weapons

Dresden:

• The Ethics of Bombing Dresden, by Lt. Col. Raymond H. Willcocks, Air National Guard

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