“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.”

—  Arthur Travers Harris

The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series (2007) by Richard Holmes, p. 298

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