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		Harris could see war looming rather closer than the horizon, and he was frustrated that those around him appeared to be blind to the fact that he needed to train his crews in readiness for it.
		Harris had developed a force of some potency by this point, and the raids on this city resulted in the first of the "firestorms" for which Harris personally (and wrongly) was the subject of so much criticism after the war had ended.
		Harris had made it known to all concerned that he was concerned that turning the bombers' attention to the support of the land advance could provide German cities and industry with the respite that they needed to rebuild and re-group, but he also conceded that it was necessary.
	www.hellzapoppin.demon.co.uk /harris1.htm (4971 words)

	Arthur Travers Harris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harris was born in Cheltenham in 1892 during a visit by his parents to England, while his father was on leave from the Indian Civil Service.
		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.
		With the leadup to the D-Day invasions in 1944, Harris was ordered to switch targets for the French rail network, a switch he protested because he felt it compromised the continuing pressure on German industry and it was using Bomber Command for a purpose it was not designed or suited for.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Travers_Harris (2397 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)

	Sir Arthur Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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)

	Air Force Magazine
		Sir Arthur Travers Harris, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, was the head of RAF Bomber Command in the period 1942 through 1945.
		Harris’ routine was to select targets and then leave remaining operational details to deputies, who would brief him on final plans for the raids.
		In October 1945, Harris wrote, “The best indication of the success of the three months’ offensive against the railways is the fact that the enemy’s major reinforcements reached the battlefront too late to prevent the firm establishment of the invading armies in Normandy.
	www.afa.org /magazine/jan2005/0105harris.html (3200 words)

	Amazon.com: Bomber Offensive: Books: Arthur Travers Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Harris is a field commander who does not delve into deep discussions about morality of war or impact of his operations.
		To quote Harris: "The RAF was not in a position to judge the result of its main offensive in the light of a sufficient body of indisputable evidence".
		Arthur Harris was C-in-C Bomber Command in WW II, and he led RAF bombers to destroy German cities, with never regretting.
	www.amazon.com /Bomber-Offensive-Arthur-Travers-Harris/dp/1853670588 (3152 words)

	Harris, Sir Arthur Travers - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Harris, Sir Arthur Travers 1892-1984, British marshal of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
		He was made marshal of the RAF in 1945 and was created baronet in 1953.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Harris, Sir Arthur Travers" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-harris-s.html (201 words)

	Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!: Coventry Blitz
		Due to the misexecution by the Luftwaffe, and not understanding the military significance of Coventry, the raid is universally considered by the British as an unprovoked attack on a helpless civilian population, signalling the end of the gentleman's war as anti-German hatred sweeps the nation.
		When Britain is finally starved into submission and defeat in 1945, Harris is one of many high profile war criminals handed over to Nazi authorities for trial at Nuremberg where he suicides hours before his planned execution.
		As Arthur Harris the commander of RAF Bomber Command wrote after the war "Coventry was adequately concentrated in point of space [to start a firestorm], but all the same there was little concentration in point of time".
	counterhistory.blogspot.com /2006/10/coventry-blitz.html (853 words)

	Harris, Arthur T.
		Harris, Arthur T. British Air Marshal who directed the Royal Air Force's saturation bombing of Germany during World War II.
		Copy of speech by Harris to the RAF Bomber Command Reunion Dinner 30 April, 1977.
		Marshal of the RAF Sir Arthur Harris, by Martin Middlebrook, pp 316-331.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/great/harris.htm (507 words)

	Amazon.com: Bomber Harris: His Life and Times The Biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris,the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sir Arthur Harris remains the target of criticism and vilification by many, while others believe the contribution he and his men made to victory is grossly undervalued.
		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.amazon.com /Bomber-Harris-Biography-Marshal-Wartime/dp/1853674737 (1612 words)

	TIME.com: High Road to Hell -- Jun. 7, 1943 -- Page 1
		They are Air Marshal Chief Sir Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command, and Major General Ira Clarence Eaker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force.
		Roosevelt and the heads of their armies and navies are duty bound to rate the air offensive as an uncertain experiment.
		A hackneyed remark about Sir Arthur Travers Harris is that he has "a gentle face and a furious tongue." At home with handsome Lady Harris (his second wife, whom he married in 1938) and their four-year-old daughter Jackie, he can indeed be gentle.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,884946,00.html (816 words)

	Arthur Travers Harris - Wikipédia
		Arthur Travers Harris (13 avril 1892-5 avril 1984) surnommé Bomber Harris ou Butcher ("boucher") par ses subordonnés, fut le commandant des forces britanniques (RAF de bombardement sur l'Allemagne pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
		Pénétré de sa mission, Harris était sans état d'âme quant aux très nombreuses victimes civiles de ses raids, ni pour les pilotes perdus au combat, ce qui lui valu son surnom.
		Wikimedia Commons propose des documents multimédia sur Arthur Travers Harris.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Travers_Harris (314 words)

	Harris — Infoplease.com
		Lewis and Harris - Lewis and Harris, island (1985 est.
		Sir Arthur Travers Harris - Harris, Sir Arthur Travers, 1892–1984, British marshal of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
		Hegel, Harris, and the Spirit of the Phenomenology.(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, H.S. Harris)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0914213.html (176 words)

	Routledge: Military, Strategic and Security Studies - Routledge Military, Strategic and Security Studies
		According to the author all aircrews, tacticians and those who direct them have to realise the limitations of air power...
		Arthur Tedder became one of the most eminent figures of the Second World War: first as head of Anglo-American air...
		This is the first time that Sir Arthur Bomber' Harris's own papers covering his three and a half years at...
	www.routledgestrategicstudies.com /series_list.asp?series=20 (321 words)

	Ruggles
		Harry Ruggles, born in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia; died 1925.
		Arthur Gidney Ruggles, born September 12, 1872 in Prince Edward Island, Alberton, Prince Co,; died August 14, 1938 in Larned, Kansas.
		Harry LeMoine14 Ruggles (Harry13, Timothy Dwight12, Timothy11, Timothy10, Brig.
	www.webspawner.com /users/ruggles (5156 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 - In the eye of the firestorm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Both of them knew that the successful conclusion of the Battle of Britain had recently freed their country’s aviation industry to make an enormous investment in the production of long-range heavy bombers.
		Before stumping off the ministry roof, Harris turned to Portal, indicated the flames and said: "They are sowing the wind." Portal agreed.
		Aryan Dresdeners were incapable of seeing themselves and their city through the eyes of its violated Jews or, more crucially in 1945, through the eyes of Sir Arthur Harris.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=148872004 (1006 words)

	SIR ARTHUR TRAVERS HARRIS - ANNOTATED CARD SIGNED
		Sir Arthur T. Harris served in the Royal Flying Corps in WWI.
		As Commander in Chief of Bomber Command in WWII (1942-1945), he organized mass bomber raids on industrial Germany.
		Harris was knighted by King George VI in 1942.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/3_2003/military/SIR_ARTHUR_TRAVERS_HARRIS.htm (142 words)

	Historical Bibliography no. 6, War on Film: Military History Education
		The military efforts of this nation to preserve these concepts, from the Revolutionary War era to the present, are also represented.
		The story of Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris, a commander whose role in World War II still provokes controversy, is told in this program.
		Covered are Harris' role in the policy of bombing German cities; how Harris had to send his men into battle, but could only command from the rear; and how his career ended in partial eclipse because his backers during the war withdrew their support once the war was won.
	www.cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/Eiserman/EISERMAN.asp (15367 words)

	ARTHUR TRAVERS HARRIS - "BOMBER COMMAND" -
		Sir Harris vince e "a suo piacimento", com'egli stesso scriverà, decide la continuazione delle incursioni notturne, con il solo scopo di colpire civili, mentre gli americani, con tacito accordo, proseguono gli attacchi diurni scortati dai caccia a lungo raggio.
		In quest'occasione, sir Harris, non solo, non esprime alcun giudizio di carattere umanitario, per le atrocità verificatesi anche maggiori del previsto, ma n'elabora tecnicamente un modello da adottare nei successivi bombardamenti sulle città tedesche, per la durata della guerra.
		Sir Harris, incurante delle molte vittime civili, causate dall'imprecisione dei sistemi di puntamento, imperturbabile, continua, applicando scrupolosamente la sua teoria.
	www.cronologia.it /storia/a1945za.htm (4949 words)

	Tessa's Tête-à-Tête
		In the resulting firestorms, between 35,000 and 135,000 civilians died (there is much controversy over the exact number) and the city was razed to the ground.
		Sir Arthur Travers Harris, who was Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command from 1942 to 1945, ordered the obliteration of this historic city.
		Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris was convinced that air power would be the decisive factor in winning the war and that strategic bombing would help to prevent the whole scale slaughter of forces on the ground as had happened in the First World War.
	noviomagus.tripod.com /chat/index.blog?from=20050302 (3712 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Arthur Travers Harris (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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	TIME.com: Hot & Heavy -- Jan. 25, 1943 -- Page 1
		Not for months had Germans had such grim repetitive reminders of a deadly, radio-borne promise made to them last summer by burly Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, head of the R.A.F.'s Bombing Command: You have no chance.
		In autumn's fair weather there had been nights and days when a small raid or two and the endless slashing of Allied intruder aircraft against Germany's overstrained transport system were only pallid proofs that "Red" Harris intended to make good.
		In Berlin's 54th raid of the war, "Red" Harris had picked up the task he had pledged himself to resume.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,850227,00.html (784 words)

	The dilemma of Dresden - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Vonnegut was there, so like other first-person sources cited in the book, he saw the tragedy through a soda straw.
		First, it considered itself to be a cultural icon; indeed it was in German minds, but not to Gen. Arthur Travers "Bomber" Harris, the South Africa-born chief of the British air force's Bomber Command.
		Second, the Western Allies were determined to cut off German resupply to their forces fighting a Russian advance into eastern Germany — a move which, it was hoped, would allow Allied forces to resume their attack in the west (it had stalled at the Rhine).
	www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20040308-085141-4936r.htm (744 words)

	Best of the Blogs
		Many more people died in firebombing during the war than died in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
		Using a strategy developed by RAF Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, aka “Butcher” Harris, the Allies deliberately set out to “break the will” of the Germans and Japanese by carpetbombing major cities and killing as many civilians as possible.
		It sounds horrible, and it is, but there are those who can argue, convincingly, that it hastened the end of the war and ultimately saved lives on both sides.
	www.bestoftheblogs.com /2004_04_01_bestof.html (2019 words)

	AllRefer Encyclopedia - British And Irish History, Biographies Encyclopedia
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		• Lee of Fareham, Arthur Hamilton Lee, 1st Viscount
		• Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d marquess of
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	RAF Waddington 1916-1945
		But Waddington did not begin its days as a bomber station.
		Back in the early days of World War I it was selected as a suitable site for a training airfield by a team of Royal Flying Corps aviators which included on Major Arthur Travers Harris (later to become Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command).
		Waddington remained a training station for the RFC throughout the First World War and countless British, Empire, Commonwealth, American and even Russian (!) students were successfully trained there.
	www.woodfieldpublishing.com /contents/en-uk/p123.html (699 words)

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