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ANTIAIRCRAFT DEFENSE THROUGH WORLD WAR II
15. Pile, Ack-Ack, 155–56, 186–93, and 379; Pile, “Anti-Aircraft Defence of
UK,” 5982; “History of A. A. Command,” 123–24, plates 45, 49; “Antiaircraft Defences
of Great Britain,” appendix B; and Routledge, Royal Regiment, 338, 399.
16. Routledge, Royal Regiment, 108–12, 124, 144–53.
17. Guns larger than 50-55 mm are considered “heavy”; those less than
this size are considered “light.”
18. US Army Air Defense School, “Air Defense,” 2, 127–28, 131–32; H. E. C.
Weldon, “The Artillery Defence of Malta,” Antiaircraft Journal, May–June
1954, 24, 26, 27, 29; Charles Jellison, Besieged—The World War II Ordeal of
Malta, 1940–1942 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1984),
166–67, 170, 205, 258; Christopher Shores, Duel for the Sky (London:
Blandford, 1985), 88, 90, 92; and Routledge, Royal Regiment, 166–74.
19. Pile, Ack-Ack, 266, 301, 303, 305; Pile, “Anti-aircraft Defence of UK,”
5984; and “Survey of Antiaircraft Defenses of the United Kingdom,” 1, pt.
3:52, 53, 118, RAI.
20. Pile, Ack-Ack, 323–44; and “Fringe Targets,” RAI.
21. For a more detailed discussion of the V-1 and its operations in World
War II, see Kenneth Werrell, The Evolution of the Cruise Missile (Maxwell
AFB, Ala.: Air University Press, 1985), chap. 3; Basil Collier, The Battle of the
V-Weapons, 1944–1945 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1964), 56–59;
Roderic Hill, “Air Operations by Air Defence of Great Britain and Fighter
Command in Connection with the German Flying Bomb and Rocket Offensives,
1944–45,” supplement to the London Gazette, 19 October 1948,
5587–89; Basil Collier, The Defence of the United Kingdom (London: Her
Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1957), 361, 365; and British Air Ministry, “Air
Defence of Great Britain, The Flying Bomb and Rocket Campaign: 1944 to
1945,” first draft of report, 7:42–43, HRA.
22. Collier, V-Weapons, 69, 71–75, 79; Hill, “Air Operations by Air Defence,”
5591–92; Rowland Pocock, German Guided Missiles of the Second World War
(New York: Arco Publishing, Inc., 1967), 48; Jozef Garlinski, Hitler’s Last
Weapons (London: Times Book, 1978), 168; David Irving, The Mares Nest
(London: Kimber, 1969), 233, 236, 240; and M. C. Helfers, The Employment
of V-Weapons by the Germans during World War II, monograph (Washington,
D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1954),
18–30, HRA.
23. Hill, “Air Operations,” 5594; Collier, Defence of the UK, 374; Mary
Welborn, “V-1 and V-2 Attacks against the United Kingdom during World
War II,” technical report ORO-T-45 (Washington, D.C.: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 16 May 1950), 9, HRA; “Minutes and Related Data Scientific
Sub-Committee of Crossbow Committee, V-1, vol. 2,” Operations Research
Section (ADGB) Report 88, n.d., HRA; Report of the British Air Ministry,
“Points of Impact and Accuracy of Flying Bombs: 22 June–28 July,” 29 July
1944, HRA; “The Speed of Air-Launched Divers,” HRA; Report of the General
Board, US Forces, European Theater, “Tactical Employment of Antiaircraft
Artillery Units Including Defense against Pilotless Aircraft (V-1),” study no.
38, 39, HRA; “Minutes and Related Data Scientific Sub-Committee of Cross-
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