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ANTIAIRCRAFT DEFENSE THROUGH WORLD WAR II
37. Air Ministry Weekly Intelligence Summary, 289, HRA; Benjamin King
and Timothy Kutta, Impact: The History of Germany’s V-Weapons in World
War II (Rockville Centre, N.Y.: Sarpedon, 1998), 291.
38. Antiaircraft artillery cost a third of what fighters cost and about 25
percent more than the balloons. Collier, Defence of the UK, 523; Hill, “Air
Operations,” 5603; and British Air Ministry, “The Economic Balance of the
Fly-Bomb Campaign,” summary report, 4 November 1944, HRA.
39. Memorandum 5-7B by US Strategic Air Forces, Armament and Ordnance,
“An Analysis of the Accuracy of the German Flying Bomb (V-1) 12
June to 5 October 1944,” 144, HRA; British Air Ministry, “Air Defence of
Great Britain,” 123; and Collier, Defence of the UK, 523.
40. Collier, Defence of the UK, appendix L.
41. King and Kutta, Impact, 3, 211.
42. European Theater report no. 38, 40–41, 45, HRA; Operations Report
of Headquarters Antwerp X Forward, no. 2J, 1 May 1945, annex A, HRA;
SHAEF, “Report of ‘V’ Section on Continental Crossbow (September
1944–March 1945),” 28, HRA; and United States Strategic Bombing Survey
(USSBS), V-Weapons (Crossbow) Campaign, January 1947, 2d ed., 15.
43. Report of Headquarters Antwerp X Forward, no. 2H, 4 March 1945,
HRA; Antwerp X report no. 2J, annex A; European Theater report no. 38,
40–45; and King and Kutta, Impact, 274.
44. Peter G. Cooksley, Flying Bomb (New York: Scribner, 1979), 185. For
a good secondary account, see R. J. Backus, “The Defense of Antwerp
Against the V-1 Missile” (master of military arts and sciences thesis, US
Army Command and General Staff College, 1971).
45. US Army Air Defense School, “Air Defense,” 2:36; and Welborn,
“Over-all Effectiveness,” table 8.
46. US Army Air Defense School, “Air Defense,” 2:37; and US Army, “Antiaircraft
Artillery” note no. 8, 4, US Army Command and General Staff College,
Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
47. “The GAF 1 January Attack,” United States Strategic Air Forces in
Europe, Air Intelligence Summary 62 (week ending 14 January 1945), 5,
HRA; “Airfield Attack of 1 January,” HRA; SHAEF Intelligence Summary 42,
30 [USACGSC]; Daily Air Action Summary, Office of Assistant Chief of Staff,
Intelligence Headquarters, Army Air Forces, Washington, D.C., 3 January
1945, HRA; Duty Group Captain’s Daily Resume of Air Operations, serial no.
1843, Air Ministry, Whitehall, 2 January 1944, HRA; Saunders, Royal Air
Force, 209; Roger Freeman, The Mighty Eighth War Diary (New York: Jane’s
Publishing Co. Ltd., 1981), 412–13; History and Statistical Summary, IX Air
Defense Command, January 1944–June 1945, 80; Werner Gerbig, Six
Months to Oblivion (London: Allan, 1973), 74, 76–79, 110, 112; USAF Credits
for the Destruction of Enemy Aircraft, World War II, USAF Historical Study
85 (Maxwell AFB, Ala.: USAF Historical Division, Air University, 1978), 286;
and Air Staff Operational Summary Report nos. 1503, 1504, Air Ministry
War Room, 2, 3 January 1945, HRA. The most detailed, but not necessarily
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