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List of Maps and Diagrams

	Facing page
Europe	17
Principal Targets attacked by Bomber Command, 1942–43	35
Fighter and Light-bomber Operations, 1943	133
Pre-invasion Air Attacks	231
Principal Targets attacked by Bomber Command, 1944–45	377
Battle of the Atlantic, June 1943–May 1945	411
In text
	Page
Atlantic Air Patrols	20
Biscay Patrols	27
Targets in West Germany	42
Attacks on German Sea Communications by Bomber and Coastal Commands	116
Air Operations – the Invasion of Normandy	284
Defence against the Flying Bombs	320
The Pursuit to the Rhine	340
The Ardennes Battle	342
Airborne Assault at Arnhem	379
Royal Air Force Bomber Command—Distribution of Effort by Bomb Tonnages, June 1944 – April 1945	398
Overrunning Germany	430

The occupations given in the biographical footnotes are those on enlistment.