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Source: National Archives, Washington DC: Record Group RG.218 (U.S. Joint Chief of Staff): meetings of the [US] Joint Chiefs of Staff and [Anglo-American] Combined Chiefs of Staff, file ABC 337 (14th Sept, 1944) Section 4.
- Extracts from the meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 176th meeting September 14, 1944.
- "General Arnold said that he understood the British objected to the Combined Chiefs of Staff recording their decision that Germany should be bombed for morale purposes."
- (This paragraph has been amended to read:- "General Arnold said that he understood the British desired that the Combined Chiefs of Staff endorse morale bombing of Germany".)
"Admiral Leahy thought that it would be a mistake for the Combined Chiefs of Staff to record such a decision..."
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