Dehousing was a strategy adopted by the British against the Germans during World War II. It sought to maximize the damage to civilian housing. The strategy...

response to the concerns raised by the Butt report, Cherwell produced his dehousing paper (first circulated on 30 March 1942), which proposed that by area...

bombing directive on 12 February 1942, Lindemann presented in a paper on "Dehousing" to Churchill on 30 March 1942, which calculated the effects of area bombardment...

to resist (by which I mean morale). In the end, thanks in part to the dehousing paper, it was this view which prevailed and Bomber Command would remain...

averaging 40,000 people per week dehoused in September 1940. In March 1941, two raids on Plymouth and London dehoused 148,000 people. Still, while heavily...

(1941) RAF strategic bombing 1942–1945 Area Bombing Directive (1942) Dehousing paper (1942) Casablanca directive (1943) Leaders Arthur "Bomber" Harris...

from the United States). It was the weapon of choice for the British "dehousing" plan. The bomb consisted of a hollow body made from aluminium-magnesium...

400 buildings, of which more than 7,700 were completely destroyed, thus dehousing more than 50,000 people. The first major raid on Saarbrücken was undertaken...

1980s the social problem of dehousing had emerged in which people who were previously housed started to experience dehousing. During 1987, the International...

wrote that Hansell "won the war". Big Wing, British fighter doctrine Dehousing, British area bombardment doctrine General Curtis LeMay. the USAAF's counterpart...