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Lists reports on the effects of air raids on industrial facilities.

Updates and reports on research projects related to blast and other air raid related topics.

Notes on the items in Section F of the Research Programme of the Research and Experiments Department in January 1945. Includes reports on newly created or improved equipment to be used in the protection of and fighting of fires created by aerial dropped incendiary bombs. Includes "Protection against incendiary bombs" , "Improvement in first-aid equipment" , "Improvement in fire equipment" , "Improvements in methods of fire fighting" , "Study of effects of fire in buildings and improvements in structural fire precautions" , "Improvement of fire precautions in hazardous industries" , "Studies of Incendiary attack" , "Fire statistics".

Extensive report on newly invented or improved safety devices to be used during incendiary air-raids or the fighting of fires caused by air-raids in Great Britain. Content includes "Studies of the effects of incendiary attack" , "Protection against incendiary attack" , "Improvements in first-aid fire fighting" , "Improvements in fire force and installed equipment" plus appendices. In complete document.

Report on RAF incendiary air attacks on German cities and their effectiveness. Content includes "The Problem of the analysis of incendiary attack" , "The overall response of central areas of German cities to mixed HE and IB attack" , "Overall analysis of attacks on whole cities" , "Methods of more detailed analysis of incendiary attacks" , "Fire-division mapping of targets" , "The contribution of fire-spread to damage" , "The Quantitative estimates of the performance of weapons and the response of targets to incendiary attack" , "The pattern of attack" plus appendices "Notes on the nature of the target" , "Quantitative analyses of fire-division maps" , "an example of the investigation of the contribution of fire-spread to the effect of incendiary attack". Includes tables and maps.

Ronnie Shephard's research notes and summaries on incendiary weapons. Includes "A comparison of the estimated effects of specific incendiary weapons against a typical domestic larger area in the centre of a German city" , "The distribution of IBs resulting from the random dropping to sticks" , "Civil Defense (ARP) Fire Masks incendiary bombs" , "Fire data compilation: plant and machinery".

With correspondence between R.W. Shephard and Frank Sawyer concerning Shephard's letter in this edition of the Journal.

Research notes on Air Operational Research, including bibliographies, correspondence and reports from the Air Warfare Analysis Section on the topics of the flying bomb, Poisson Distribution, accuracy of long range rockets, and the bomb census

Figures concerning points of impact, and relative successes of various methods for destroying flying bombs that reached Britain's defences.

Short biography of Dr. L.B.C. Cunningham.

Figures and analysis related to mathematical model for air combat.

Report on the gathering of information on the accuracy of anti-aircraft fire with amendments. Also information on the Westex Magslip Recorder.

Report stressing the versatility of operations research personnel.

Details on personnel and roles for new Group.

Revised version of "History of the Early Years of the A.A. Radio School at Petersham" (RSF-B80) Short history of the school from 1940 and its transition into Operational Research.

Figures and analysis on the movement, velocity and accelerations of surface shelters from slow motion film of trials in the UK.

Figures and analysis based off earlier reports.

Figures and analysis of detonation trial in the UK.

A small graph taken from a report with the same title. Lists the different crater sizes and brick work destruction that is expected from different sizes of bombs.

A list of papers written for the War Damage Committee on the subject of earth movement.