Strategic Bombing Survey

Fischer, "Incendiary Warfare , McGraw-Hill, NY(1946) 27)US Strategic Bombing Survey,... 

U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey, Oil Division Final Report, War Department, Washington, D.C., 1947, p. 1 [retrans. from German trans.]. 

Steel production also failed to meet the Four Year Plan s requirements. A second Karinhall revision of 1 January 1939 called for the production of 4.5 million metric tons of steel by the end of 1943. With this amount of steel Germany expected to expand existing plants and construct new plants to increase synthetic fuel production from 3.7 million metric tons in 1938 to 11 million metric tons per year by 1944. According to the US Strategic Bombing Survey s postwar report the required 4.5 million metric tons of steel equaled the amount necessary to build a fleet 3.5 times the size of the British navy that existed on 1 January 1940 [18]. 

The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, The German Oil Industry Ministerial Report Team 78, Oil Division, 1st ed. 5 September 1945, 2nd ed. January 1947, 19-20. 

Birkenfeld, Der synthetische Treihstojf Kf. 17) 213-215 E. E. Donath, Hydrogenation of Coal and Tar, H. H. Lowry, ed., Chemistry of Coal Utilization (3 vols.. New York, 1945 and 1963), supplementary volume, 1041-1080, on 1042-1044 German Synthetic Petrol and the Moscow Conference, Petroleum Times, 51 (1947) 430, 446 Present Position and Future Role of MOst (Brux) Synthetic Oil Plant, Petroleum Times, 50 (1946) 852 Strategic Bombing Survey (ref 18). 

But the Secretary of War had less control over the military forces he was delegated to administer than he would have liked, and nine days later, on May 25, 464 of LeMay s B-29 s—nearly twice as many as flew the first low-level March 9 incendiary raid—once again successfully burned out nearly sixteen square miles of Tokyo, although the Strategic Bombing Survey asserts that only a few thousand Japanese were killed compared to the 86,000 it totals for the earlier conflagration. The newspapers made much of the late-May Are raid Stimson was appalled. 

Tokyo raid cf. United States Strategic Bombing Survey (1976) (hereafler USSBS) Birdsall (1980) Guillain (1981) Kennett (1982) Overy (1980). 

United States Strategic Bombing Survey, v. X. 1976. Garland. 

The United States strategic bombing survey. The German oil industry ministerial report team 78, Oil division, 1st edn., 5 Sep 1945,2nd edn., Jan 1947,19-20. 

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