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	Arthur Travers Harris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harris also contributed at this time to the development of bombing using delay-action bombs, which were then applied to keep down uprisings of the Mesopotamian tribes fighting against British occupation.
		Harris said at the start of the bombing campaign that he was unleashing on Germany "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them.
		Disappointed by the criticisms of his methods, Harris moved to South Africa, and was the manager of the South African Marine Corporation from 1946 to 1953.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Travers_Harris (1779 words)

	Arthur Travers Harris biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harris was born in England, but his parents moved to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) when he was still a child.
		Harris contributed at this time to the development of terror bombing using delay-action bombs, which were then applied to keep down uprisings of the Iraqi tribes fighting against British occupation.
		Harris quickly rose through the RAF hierarchy, and was promoted to Air Commodore in 1937, Air Vice-Marshal in 1939, Air Marshal in 1941, and Commander in Chief of the Bomber Command in February 1942.
	arthur-travers-harris.biography.ms (1314 words)

	Air Marshall Arthur Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Arthur Harris commanded Bomber Command and was a believer that the bombing of civilian targets, and as a result civilians, would shorten World War Two.
		Harris believed that if the morale of civilians was destroyed as a result of their city being attacked, they would put pressure on their government to capitulate.
		In 1946, Harris was appointed Marshall of the RAF.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /air_marshall_arthur_harris.htm (929 words)

	Arthur H. Harris
		Dr. Harris is Director of the Laboratory for Environmental Biology and is Curator of Higher Vertebrates and Curator of Vertebrate Paleobiology.
		Harris, A. Mammals of the Franklin Mountains and vicinity.
		Harris, A. The Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Pendejo Cave.
	www.utep.edu /leb/curators/harris.htm (1490 words)

	Law School Mourns Death of Student Arthur Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harris, 27, died in his sleep of natural causes at a Boston homeless shelter where he had been staying in an effort to better understand the lives of poor people.
		Harris was recalled last week as a young man determined to pursue a career in social justice after having grown up in public housing in one of the poorer areas of Alabama.
		Harris earned his undergraduate degree in 2000 from the University of Alabama, where he was president of the Undergraduate Student Government Association and Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society, chairman of the Black Student Awareness Committee, and vice-president of the Black Student Union.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v12/d11/harris.html (496 words)

	Arthur Harris, Class of 2004 - Boston College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Arthur’s journey from modest circumstances to less than a year away from a law school degree is nothing short of extraordinary.
		Arthur wrote in his personal statement on his law school application that while his family’s circumstances were often difficult, his mother instilled in him the importance of education, and the need to take advantage of every opportunity.
		Arthur went on to attend the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where it became quickly apparent to everyone that he was destined to be a powerful leader and advocate for change.
	www.bc.edu /schools/law/newsevents/2003-archive/112603 (895 words)

	Sir Arthur Harris' Despatch
		The first, and perhaps most crucial, question was whether Harris was right in his premise that his primary task was the destruction of Germany's morale and industrial cities.
		Harris does not seem to have had much faith in the new precision bombing techniques.
		It is not clear whether Harris had been personally involved in giving the code name "Crackers" to the experiments with the new Gee navigation system, but there were those in Whitehall who felt it was symptomatic of the Bomber Command attitude.
	www.tgarden.demon.co.uk /writings/articles/artharris.html (660 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Arthur Harris, 27, law student who lived with the homeless (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harris was born, his mother, Mona Scott, said in a phone interview yesterday that she knew of no illness her son might have had.
		Harris wrote how, as an African-American in a poverty stricken area, he and his family were often the targets of police profiling and searches, though they had done nothing wrong.
		Harris was president of the Undergraduate Student Government Association and led the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2003/12/05/arthur_harris_27_law_student_who_lived_with_the_homeless (915 words)

	Arthur Travers Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet (April 13, 1892 - April 5, 1984), commonly known as "Bomber" Harris, and often within the RAF as "Butcher" Harris, was commander of RAF Bomber Command and later a Marshal of the Royal Air Force during the latter half of World War II.
		Still, despite strong protests from Germany as well as some British subjects, Bomber Harris Trust suceeded in erecting a statue of him outside the RAF Church of St Clement Danes, London in 1992 and unveiled by the Queen Mother.
		The RAF Aircrew's nickname for Harris, "Butcher" or "Butch", was not given as a comment on the morality of his bombing policy.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Arthur-Travers-Harris.htm (1778 words)

	BBC - History - Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris (1892 - 1984)
		One of the most controversial figures of World War Two, Harris was in charge of the massive Allied air campaign against Nazi Germany from 1942 to 1945.
		Harris was educated in English public schools, then settled in Rhodesia.
		Harris commanded respect from his subordinates and enormous loyalty from his crews.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/harris_sir_arthur_bomber.shtml (381 words)

	V27N1 - Personality Profile: Air Marshall Sir Arthur Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Arthur Harris was born on 13 Apr 1892, the son of an Indian Civil Service official.
		Harris was convinced that strategic bombing on a large scale would cause the collapse of the German industry and break the morale of the German people and ultimately bring about Germany's defeat.
		Harris argued that the attacks on the German cities were justified as they helped to shorten the war and saved numerous allied lives.
	mindef.gov.sg /safti/pointer/back/journals/2001/Vol27_1/10.htm (1351 words)

	Sir Arthur Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Arthur Travers Harris (1892-1984), known as "Bomber Harris," was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command in February 1942.
		He was the mastermind of the indiscriminate area bombing of German cities from 1942 to 1945, during which time over 850,000 tons of bombs were dropped on German cities by the RAF at night.
		After the war, when the true nature of this bombing became known, Harris was publicly villified as a war criminal, and in disgrace he left the country to reside for a time in South Africa, but he returned with impunity to England in 1953.
	www.bible-researcher.com /dresden/harris.html (539 words)

	ARTHUR HARRIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harris developed the theory of attacking major industrial centers in order to deliberately destroy as many homes and houses as possible.
		Critics of Harris, mostly in Germany, believe that the bombing was a war crime, and that Harris was a war criminal who, due to his luck in belonging to the winning party, in an act of Siegerjustiz was not held accountable at the Nuremberg Trials (Predecessor of the International criminal court ICC) for his deeds.
		Harris was made Marshal of the RAF in 1945 and retired soon after to write his story of Bomber Command's achievements in Bomber Offensive.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/ARTHUR+HARRIS (891 words)

	His Master's Voice -- Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1892-1984
		Harris took command of Britain's strategic bombing effort when the new four-engine heavy bombers were beginning to roll out of the factories.
		On 27 January 1945 Harris was explicitly instructed to resume terror attacks against the German civilian population.
		It is noteworthy that Harris' civilian superiors largely succeeded in escaping responsibility in the public mind for the policy of bombing German cities instead of concentrating on military targets.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v05/v05p431_Lutton.html (1102 words)

	Juno Beach Centre - Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris
		Arthur Travers Harris, born on April 13th, 1892, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England; died on April 5th, 1984, in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England.
		Educated at a public school, Arthur Harris turned away from the military career his family hoped he would embrace and tried his luck in Rhodesia as a gold digger and a cattle breeder.
		On February 23rd, 1942, Arthur Harris was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Bomber Command and left for the Command's HQ near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
	www.junobeach.org /e/3/can-pep-gbr-harris-e.htm (832 words)

	Breitenlohner (of Probert) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the 1920s, early in his career, when Arthur Harris commanded 45 Squadron in Iraq, he was concerned with improving the accuracy of his unit’s bomb aiming.
		Harris cannot be made to bear personal responsibility for either the area-bombing strategy in general, or the Dresden raid in particular.
		Although Harris became a lightning rod for postwar criticism of the strategic air offensive, the critical decisions were made higher up the chain of command by the Chiefs of Staff, the War Cabinet, and Winston Churchill.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2002/winter/br12-w02.htm (874 words)

	Arthur Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Arthur Harris began his military career in the Rhodesian Air Force.
		After the war, with the establishment of the Royal Air Force, Harris became a squadron leader.
		Bomber Harris : The Story of the Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur.
	www.multied.com /Bio/people/Harris.html (86 words)

	Reader's Companion to Military History - - Harris, Arthur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Arthur Harris enlisted in the British army at the start of World War I, but switched to the Royal Flying Corps.
		Harris was never known for concern for the traditional services; he came close to being dismissed from the Staff College at Camberley, where he suggested that the army would not buy a tank unless the vehicle ate hay and thereafter left deposits like a horse.
		In the end, Harris and his command played a major role in the Allied victory, but its contribution came at great cost to his crews, with 51 percent killed on operations, 9 percent in crashes in England; 3 percent maimed, 13 percent shot down, and less than 25 percent surviving unscathed.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/mil/html/ml_022600_harrisarthur.htm (297 words)

	Aerospace Power Journal: Bomber Harris: His Life and Times: The Biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur ...
		Harris was born in 1892 and spent his early childhood in India.
		Harris contended with the challenges of bombing accuracy, crew morale, equipment upgrades, and diversions from strategic bombing as well as tasks ranging from mine laying to tactical support of the Allied invasion of Normandy.
		Harris died in 1984 at the age of 92.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0ICK/is_2_16/ai_90529741 (1163 words)

	Arthur Harris
		In 1932 Harris was appointed commander of the 210 Flying Boat Squadron.
		Harris fought against all attempts to persuade him to switch to precision bombing and for a while resisted the formation of the Pathfinder Force in 1942.
		Harris argued that the main objectives of night-time blanket bombing of urban areas was to undermine the morale of the civilian population a
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWharris.htm (2951 words)

	Osprey - ‘Bomber’ Harris — an enduring enigma
		Harris was hopelessly optimistic when it came to assessing the effectiveness of bombing, making unrealistic claims as to accuracy and destruction, and displaying a remarkable complacency when assessing the effectiveness and failure rate of weapons.
		Moreover, Harris had fought and witnessed the carnage on the Western Front, and doubtless felt that the death of German civilians was preferable to the wholesale slaughter of another generation of British youth in the trenches.
		Harris died on 5 April 1984, eight days short of his 92nd birthday, and eight years later, on 31 May 1992, a statue to him was finally formally unveiled outside the RAF Church at St Clement Dane.
	www.ospreypublishing.com /content4.php/cid=66 (2362 words)

	OSCN Found Document:HARRIS v. ARTHUR
		After a demurrer had been sustained thereto and an amended petition filed, a general demurrer to the amended petition was again sustained by the court, to which action plaintiffs excepted, refused to plead further, and bring this case here on transcript for a review of the action of the trial court in sustaining the demurrer.
		The petition alleges, in substance, that the plaintiff Z. Harris was in possession of and holding as lessee lots 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24, in block 9, being a part of the W. I/2 of the N.W. I/4 of section 27, township 14 N., range 1 E., in Oklahoma county.
		That the defendant, Arthur, made a verbal agreement with plaintiffs; that upon her relinquishment of her leasehold interest so that he could procure a lease thereon from the Land Department; that he would pay her the sum of $ 1,000.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/deliverdocument.asp?citeid=9232 (1996 words)

	Axis History Forum :: View topic - What is the deal with Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris?
		There still is and proberbly will be critics of Harris, he retired to South Africa to get away from his critics in Britian and europe and was made to feel welcome as he was looked up on as a Hero in South Africa, as Several Bomber groups where made up from South Africans.
		Harris believed until he died that the Bombings where needed and justifiable as it was Total War and never moved from this stance.
		The Queen Mother revield the Statue of Harris as she was the Champion of RAFA and personally knew Sir Harris.
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=54371 (1529 words)

	CNN.com
		HARRIS: I can't believe you would ever have imagined that you'd be in a hospital recovering from kidney transplants together on new year's eve.
		ARTHUR HIGHBAUGH: Well, no, actually my brother has been waiting longer, I mean from the standpoint that he's been on dialysis longer.
		HARRIS: Well, listen, whatever it is you do and hey, wherever it is you decide to do it, I don't care where you sleep here...
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0301/01/ltm.05.html (1024 words)

	Sir Arthur Harris
		Arthur Harris was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England on April 13th 1892.
		On 23rd February 1942 Arthur Harris was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Bomber Command; a post he held until 1945.
		Arthur 'Bomber' Harris was certainly the most controversial allied officer of World War II.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /julie.bell102/harris.html (340 words)

	Arthur Harris. Bomber Offensive... - Memoir-Biography.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A great fan of the Americans, Harris obviously regarded them as rivals, and he points out that they also opted for carpet bombing; it produced a firestorm in Tokyo.
		Harris suffered less for his efforts than Oppenheimer, though his reputation fared worse.
		His regretless post-war return to his adopted Africa was probably accompanied by the thought that you can't expect thanks for a difficult and dirty but essential job well executed.
	memoir-biography.com /military/056/arthur-harris-bomber-offensive.htm (843 words)

	Bomber Harris, His Life and Times: The Biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, the Wartime Chief ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Probert uses the personal papers of Harris and other sources to detail every aspect of Harris's life, from his birth in Rhodesia to his experiences in World War I, service in the Middle East, and appointment as commander in chief of Bomber Command in 1942.
		Harris worked diligently day and night to get the resources and aircraft Bomber Command needed and to keep the morale of his personnel high.
		For example, Harris broke up his first marriage by having an affair while he was away from home and after his divorce he had a problematic relationship with his children.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /books-plain/1853674737.html (876 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Bomber War : Arthur Harris and the Allied Bomber Offensive, 1939-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harris and his colleagues believed that by terror bombing the cities of Germany, they could force an end to the war.
		Harris was so extreme that even Neillanos has to admit that by the fall of 1944 he had been proven wrong and needed to relent.
		The author has already explained that Harris considered bombings with military targets or with transport or oil targets to be diversions from simply slaughtering Germans and destroying their homes ("dehousing" being the term Bomber Command used).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585671622?v=glance (3071 words)

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