ABSTRACT
Studying these Heavy Bombing attacks was a laborious and depressing affair, and at the time we prayed that we should never have to do any more of it. The dust and the appalling quantities of traffic ... made travelling to and fro an exhausting business. Having arrived at the front, we had to probe about in the desolation of one French village after another, often uncomfortably close to mortaring, shelling, and the front line, and search out from their hiding places units which had taken part in the battle. When we returned there were air photographs to be pored over, and a thousand and one fragments of information to be assembled.17
