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Fonds contain material relating to operational military research from the second half of the 20th century. The documents are multi-disciplinary in nature, providing scientific, mathematical and historical perspectives of the same topic. Many documents originally come from the Public Records Office UK (PRO), now known as The National Archives (TNA). In such cases, original archival references will be provided, and potential researchers are encouraged to cite these whenever possible. For more information on these Fonds or on Ronnie Shephard, please visit http://lmharchive.ca/the-ronnie-shephard-fonds/.

Excerpt from Joint Munition Effectiveness Manual Chapter 3-15 Buildings. Notes and diagrams onthe structural classification of potential target buildings.

Comments on estimating casualties due to air raids.

Figures and diagrams of tests carried out on 1/3 scale houses.

Results and diagrams of small scale tests with varying concrete walls and soil types.

Analysis, figures and diagrams relating to study.

Home Security reports concerning experiments on blast pressure and its wounding power.

Reports and tables on Allied Air Activity in Northwest Europe for August 1944. Includes types of aircraft used, missions launched, and intelligence on targets and enemy troop movement.

Medical and psychiatric reports from World War II dealing with shellshock, combat exhaustion and morale. Majority of reports are from Middle East stations and hospitals.

Operational research reports concerning rocket, aerial and artillery bombardment including effectiveness, morale effect, and tactical significance.

Topics Include:
I Programmes and Reports of Research
II Physics of Explosions
III Blast
IV Earth Waves
V Fragmentation and Fragment Penetration
VI Bomb Penetration
VII Casualty Effects of Bombs
VIII Confined Explosions
IX Shelters and Strengthened or Protective Structures
X Normal Structures
XI Structural Elements
XII Structural Materials
XIV General Effects of Air Raids
XV Incendiary Weapons and Their Effects
XVI Protection Against Incendiary Attack
XVII Fire-Fighting and Fire-Fighting Equipment
XIX Miscellaneous
XXI Camouflage and Smoke Screens
XXII Anti-Tank and Anti-Personnel Mines and Minefields
XXIII Demolitions
XXIV Bombing Technique - Aiming Errors
XXV The Interpretation of Aerial Photographs
XXVI Photographic Interpretation - Optical Devices
XXVII Craters and Debris
XXVIII Atomic

With notes on whether paper is Open, Restricted, Confidential, or Secret. Papers pertain largely to air raids and air raid precautions.

Bibliography with original and revised security ratings.

Bibliography with original and revised security ratings.

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".