The number of bombers and tonnage of bombs are taken from a USAF document written in 1953 and classified secret until 1978 (Angell 1953).
Taylor (2005), front flap,แม่แบบ:Verification needed which gives the figures 1,100 heavy bombers and 4,500 tons.
Webster and Frankland (1961) give 805 Bomber Command aircraft 13 February 1945 and 1,646 US bombers 16 January – 17 April 1945. (Webster & Frankland 1961, pp. 198, 108–109).
↑ Causalty figures have varied mainly due to false information spread by Nazi German and Soviet propaganda. Some figures from historians include: 18,000+ (but less than 25,000) from Antony Beevor in "The Second World War"; 20,000 from Anthony Roberts in "The Storm of War"; 25,000 from Ian Kershow in "The End"; 25,000–30,000 from Michael Burleigh in "Moral Combat"; 35,000 from Richard J. Evans in "The Third Reich at War: 1939-1945".
