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printed documents such as those of Arthur Tedder, With Prejudice: The War Memoirs
of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder G.C.B. (Boston: Little Brown and Company,
1966); Aileen Clayton, The Enemy is Listening: The Story of the Y Service
(London: Hutchinson & Co., 1980); A. B. Cunningham, A Sailor’s Odyssey: The
Autobiography of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (New
York: Hutchinson & Co., 1951); and L. B. Montgomery, The Memoirs of Field Marshal
the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. (New York: The World Publishing
Company, 1958). -0 sets of printed documents must also be consulted, namely
Martin Blumenson, ed., The Patton Papers, 1940-1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1972) and volume I1 of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: The War Years
(Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970), ed., Alfred D. Chandler,
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In addition, three articles help provide an understanding of the air war in Tunisia.
Laurence s. Kuter, “Goddammit, Georgie! North Africa 1943: The Birth of TAC
Air Doctrine,” Air Force Magazine 55 (Feb 1973); W. A. Jacobs, “Air Support for
the British Army, 1939-1943,” Military Affairs XLVI (Dec 1982); and Sir Arthur
Coningham, “The Development of Tactical Air Forces,” Journal of the Royal United
Service Institution 91 (May 1946). Technical information about various types of aircraft
used in the Tunisian campaign can be found in Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft,
1943-44 (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945). Other useful information can
be found in the official dispatches of the Allied commanders located in various
issues of the London Gazette.
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