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Recommendations.
Subject to the acceptance of the 5th Report of the Lloyd Committee, we invite the War Cabinet to agree to an air bombardment policy on the following lines:- (a) The primary aim of our bomber force during the next six months should be the destruction of the German synthetic oil plants. We emphasise the importance of adhering to this aim until it is achieved.
(Since it will not be practicable, because of meteorological conditions, to make profitable attacks on oil targets every night, and since some aircraft detailed for oil targets will fail to find them, it is necessary to allot a secondary aim.)
(b) The secondary aim will be the lowering of enemy morale, particularly in industrial areas. This object can be conveniently furthered by allotting industrial areas and railway yards as alternative objectives to all aircraft detailed for the primary aim, and by making periodical heavy concentrations against industrial towns on nights which are unsuitable for the attack on oil targets.
(c) The only diversions from (a) and (b) above should be:-
(i) Invasion ports, when invasion is believed to be imminent; (ii) Enemy naval forces, when favourable opportunities are presented for destroying or damaging important naval units or concen- trations of submarines.
Great George Street, S. W. 1,
January 7, 1941.
DUDLEY POUND. J. G. DILL.
C. PORTAL.
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