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Quotes from The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series — Arthur Travers Harris

1892–1984 England

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I never engaged in these idiotic pamphlet-dropping exercises. They only served two purposes really - they gave the German defences endless practice in getting ready for it, and apart from that they supplied a considerable quantity of toilet paper to the Germans.

The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series (2007)

People talk a lot about picking out targets and bombing them, individual small targets – in the European climate? I’ve come to the conclusion that people who say that sort of thing not only have never been outside, but they’ve never looked out of a window.

The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur Travers Harris (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.