54. Summary of operations, September 1943, No. 23 (F) Squadron, National
Archives AIR27/Sqn 23 ORB and op. cit. (note 53), ORB 23 Sqn, Summary
of Events, 31 August 1943. Appendix A.
55. Dylan Thomas, A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London.
Collected Poems, 1934–1953. Phoenix Paperbacks, (1998) ISBN—978 0
7538 1066 8.
56. UK Documents, Bunning Way, Islington, LONDON. N7 9UP.
57. Pearce’s estimate was too low. The actual figure was recorded later as
303,848. Clayton and Algar, op. cit. (note 1), p. 574. The figure of course
only represents the GEC’s efforts. Many other factories produced valves for
the war effort as well.
58. At the relatively young age of seventy.
59. Clayton and Algar, op. cit. (note 9), pp. 23–25.
60. Morris W. Travers, A Life of Sir William Ramsay K.C.B., F.R.S., Edward
Arnold London, (1956), p. 281.
61. Ramsay died in Hazlemere, High Wycombe on 23 July 1916 after months
suffering from nasal cancer.
62. Daniel Charles, Between Genius and Genocide, Jonathan Cape, London,
(2005), p. 252.
63. Dietrich Stoltzenberg, Fritz Haber. Chemist, Noble Laureate, German, Jew.
Chemical Heritage Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (2004), p. 182.
64. Stoltzenberg, op. cit. (note 63), p. 182, his ref. 20, in conversation with
‘Lutz’ in Bath, 11 October 1989. Also, Vaclav Smil, Enriching the Earth,
MIT Press, (2001), p. 327, post-script 24.
65. Stoltzenberg, op. cit. (note 63), p. 180.
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Archives AIR27/Sqn 23 ORB and op. cit. (note 53), ORB 23 Sqn, Summary
of Events, 31 August 1943. Appendix A.
55. Dylan Thomas, A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London.
Collected Poems, 1934–1953. Phoenix Paperbacks, (1998) ISBN—978 0
7538 1066 8.
56. UK Documents, Bunning Way, Islington, LONDON. N7 9UP.
57. Pearce’s estimate was too low. The actual figure was recorded later as
303,848. Clayton and Algar, op. cit. (note 1), p. 574. The figure of course
only represents the GEC’s efforts. Many other factories produced valves for
the war effort as well.
58. At the relatively young age of seventy.
59. Clayton and Algar, op. cit. (note 9), pp. 23–25.
60. Morris W. Travers, A Life of Sir William Ramsay K.C.B., F.R.S., Edward
Arnold London, (1956), p. 281.
61. Ramsay died in Hazlemere, High Wycombe on 23 July 1916 after months
suffering from nasal cancer.
62. Daniel Charles, Between Genius and Genocide, Jonathan Cape, London,
(2005), p. 252.
63. Dietrich Stoltzenberg, Fritz Haber. Chemist, Noble Laureate, German, Jew.
Chemical Heritage Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (2004), p. 182.
64. Stoltzenberg, op. cit. (note 63), p. 182, his ref. 20, in conversation with
‘Lutz’ in Bath, 11 October 1989. Also, Vaclav Smil, Enriching the Earth,
MIT Press, (2001), p. 327, post-script 24.
65. Stoltzenberg, op. cit. (note 63), p. 180.
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