Strategic Bombing Survey
The United States Strategic Bombing Survey was a board of experts assembled to produce an impartial assessment of the effects of Anglo-American strategic bombing of Nazi Germany during the European war. After publishing its report, the Survey turned its attention to the efforts against Imperial Japan, including a separate section on the recent atomic bombing.
In total, the reports contained 208 volumes for Europe and another 108 for the Pacific, comprising thousands of pages. The reports' conclusions were generally favourable about the contributions of Allied strategic bombing towards victory, calling it "decisive".
Although most of the Survey's members were military, about one-third of the 1,000-member group were civilian. The Board was not associated with any branch of the military, established directly by the US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and chaired by a civilian, Franklin D'Olier.
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