I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that th…

- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible fo…

- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wr…

- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.

- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land c…

- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

...HH Beard has perfected ...3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better..... in 1942 and onwards.

- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Dresden? There is not such a place any longer." "I want to point out, that besides Essen, we never actually considered any particular industrial site…

- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotte…

- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet