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	US STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY-EUROPEAN THEATER
		Although it has studied the problem with considerable care, the Survey has no clear answer as to what happened to these planes; the differences of opinion between German air generals, it might be added, are at least as great as between those who have searched for the explanation.
		A revised estimate prepared by the Survey (which is also a minimum) places total casualties for the entire period of the war at 305,000 killed and 780,000 wounded.
		The combination of the atomic bomb with remote-control projectiles of ocean-spanning range stands as a possibility which is awesome and frightful to contemplate.
	mason.gmu.edu /~ggault/StratBombSII.htm (6721 words)

	United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (Pacific War)
		The United States Strategic Bombing Survey was established by the Secretary of War on 3 November 1944, pursuant to a directive from the late President Roosevelt.
		Survey interrogation of a scientifically designed cross-section sample of the Japanese civilian population revealed a high degree of uniformity as between city and rural sectors of the population and as between various economic and social strata in their psychological reaction to the war.
		As might be expected, the primary reaction of the populace to the bomb was fear, uncontrolled terror, strengthened by the sheer horror of the destruction and suffering witnessed and experienced by the survivors.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/AAF/USSBS-PTO-Summary.html (20350 words)

	Strategic bombing survey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term strategic bombing survey refers to a series of American examinations of many topics related to their involvement in World War II.
		The primary purpose of the survey was to determine the effectiveness of Allied, and more specifically American, strategic bombing campaigns in Europe and in Asia against the Axis powers.
		The surveys are careful reports that presented many details of the effects of Allied aerial attacks on the Axis powers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strategic_bombing_survey (404 words)

	United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (Pacific War)
		Once started on a strategic plan which did not provide the means to assure continuing air control, there was no way in which they could revise their strategy to reverse the growing predominance in the air of a basically stronger opponent who came to understand this requirement and whose war was being fought accordingly.
		It is the opinion of the Survey that by August 1945, even without direct air attack on her cities and industries, the over-all level of Japanese war production would have declined below the peak levels of 1944 by 40 to 50 percent solely as a result of the interdiction of overseas imports.
		In the aggregate, 104,000 tons of bombs were directed at 66 urban areas; 14,150 tons were directed at aircraft factories; 10,600 tons at oil refineries; 4,708 at arsenals; 3,500 tons at miscellaneous industrial targets; 8,115 tons at air fields and sea-plane bases in support of the Okinawa operation; and 12,034 mines were sown.
	marshall.csu.edu.au /Marshalls/html/WWII/USSBS_Summary.html (19769 words)

	United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (European War)
		Before the war, the U. Army Air Forces had advanced bombing techniques to their highest level of development and had trained a limited number of crews to a high degree of precision in bombing under target range conditions, thus leading to the expressions "pin point" and "pickle barrel" bombing.
		In January 1943, at Casablanca, the objective of the strategic air forces was established as the "destruction and dislocation of the Germany military, industrial, and economic system and the undermining of the morale of the German people to the point where their capacity for armed resistance is fatally weakened." Specific target systems were named.
		With the shift in priority for strategic attacks -- first to marshalling yards and bridges in France in preparation for invasion, immediately followed by the air campaign against oil -- the continued attacks on the aircraft industry were suspended.
	www.anesi.com /ussbs02.htm (12314 words)

	U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Between 1943 and 1945 the United States conducted massive bombing campaigns first against Germany and then Japan in an effort to wreck the inudustries which sustained their war efforts and defeat them without the need for costly invasions.
		The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was commissioned to assess these campaigns of "strategic bombing" and the lessons they might hold for American defense in the future.
		While some of these are now of interest only in the narrowest of historical senses, scores remain of value not simply as unique historical documents but for their relevance to issues which continue to arise in war and peace.
	www.ussbs.com (193 words)

	U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey: Tank Industry Report
		As strategic bombing up to this time had had little or no effect on production, it is probable that the spreading out of the component product section of the industry during this period was primarily for the purpose of increasing production and not as a means of protecting the output of finished tanks.
		Although only five of the 12 German tank plants were surveyed and the damage effected by bombing assessed, these five, in general, were the plants which were the target for repeated air attacks and, thus, they were probably the plants which suffered the most damage and production loss.
		It was not until the late summer and fall of 1944 that plants became the target for a concentrated strategic bombing effort.
	www.angelfire.com /super/ussbs/tankrep.html (7389 words)

	Strategic bombing survey (Europe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The major conclusion of the report was that strategic bombing, particularly the destruction of the oil industry and truck manufacturing had major impact on the success of the Allies in World War II.
		However, despite the overall contribution of the bombing, the survey concluded that the impact of strategic bombing could not be separated from the general collapse of Germany in 1945.
		The survey concluded that one reason German production rose in so many areas was in part that the German economy did not go on a complete war footing until late 1942 and 1943.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strategic_bombing_survey_(Europe) (706 words)

	Guide to Federal Records - Records of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey [USSBS]
		Strategic Bombing Effects Survey established in London by Headquarters, USAAF, July 1944, with designation suggested by USSTAF, to consolidate planning activities for a survey of the effects of the Allied air war in Europe.
		European Survey Secretariat remained in London until December 1945 to conclude the preparation and publication of the European Survey reports.
		Survey elements arrived in Tokyo in early September 1945, where Chairman D'Olier assumed direction, assisted by a nine-member board of directors, who had charge of 15 research and analysis divisions.
	www.archives.gov /research/guide-fed-records/groups/243.html (944 words)

	United States Strategic Bombing Survey: (Pacific War) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The planes bombed from approximately 30,000ft and the percentage of bombs dropped which hit the target areas averaged less than 10 percent.
		It was decided to bomb the four principal Japanese cities at night from altitudes averaging 7,000ft.
		Bombing accuracy increased substantially, and averaged 35 to 40 percent within 1,000ft of the aiming point in daylight attacks from 20,000ft or lower.
	www.ww2guide.com /docs/ussbspac.html (20251 words)

	Technical Reports and Standards(Science Reference Services, Library of Congress)
		To study the effects of the bombing, the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was organized in November 1944.
		The survey was originally conducted in Europe; the Pacific survey was added after the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945 by the order of President Harry S. Truman.
		Strategic bombing by the United States in World War II : the myths and the facts.
	www.loc.gov /rr/scitech/trs/trsbombingsurvey.html (2811 words)

	Military Agency Records - Military Agency Records RG 243
		The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, known also as USSBS, as the Strategic Bombing Effects Committee, and as the Combined Bombing Offensive Survey, was organized in November 1944 by the Secretary of War at the request of the President.
		The Survey investigated the extent of physical destruction caused by bombings and the effects of bombing on industry, utilities, transportation, medical care, social life, morale, and the will to fight on the part of bombed populations.
		The London office of the Survey, which had set up regional headquarters in Belgium, France, and Germany in the course of its operations, was closed in October 1945, and the staff returned to the United States to prepare its reports.
	www.archives.gov /research/holocaust/finding-aid/military/rg-243.html (834 words)

	Records of the Strategic Bombing Survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Strategic Bombing Survey studied the impact of air and surface bombardment on Germany and Japan.
		The Naval Analysis Division was primarily concerned with the influence of naval operations on Japan and prepared a number of individual studies that were published by the Survey.
		The working files of the Naval Analysis Section were transferred to the National Archives in 1990.
	www.history.navy.mil /ar/sierra/ussbs.htm (103 words)

	United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (European War)
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		Plants producing tanks and armored vehicles were attacked occasionally in 1943 and early 1944.
		Transcribed and formatted for HTML by Patrick Clancey, HyperWar Foundation
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/AAF/USSBS/ETO-Summary.html (12194 words)

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