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Quotes from 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
There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.
~ 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
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 wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.
~ 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