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- Title
‘An opium smoker's dream’: the 4000-bomber plan and Anglo-American aircraft supply diplomacy at the Atlantic conference, 1941.
- Authors
Bailey, GavinJ.
- Abstract
This article explores British aircraft supply diplomacy conducted around the Atlantic conference held off Newfoundland in August 1941. By mid-1941, the British sought to reorient the US aircraft production programme involved in the Lend-Lease supply towards the production of the heavy bombers required for their strategic bombing offensive against Germany. This demanded that the British overcome the growing resistance of the US Army Air Force (USAAF) to the outcomes of Anglo-American supply diplomacy agreed at the highest level, a resistance aggravated by the British relegation of the early variants of American heavy bombers away from strategic bombing operations. The ultimate failure of British diplomacy, and their response to this failure, represents a challenge to the received wisdom of the British dependence upon American aircraft supply in particular and Lend-Lease supply in the wider sense.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LEND-lease operations (1941-1945); HISTORY of diplomacy; INTERNATIONAL economic assistance; UNITED States. Army Air Forces (1942-1947); WORLD War II &; economics; WORLD War II equipment; GREAT Britain-United States relations; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; HISTORY of military aeronautics
- Publication
Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 2013, Vol 11, Issue 3, p292
- ISSN
1479-4012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/14794012.2013.814393