TARGET SYSTEMS

Appendix

System of Targets

Number of Targets

Percentage of Total Production Represented by Targets

G I

Pursuit Airplane Ass. Plant

11

100

G II

Bomber Airplane Ass. Plant

15

100

G III

Aero-engine Plants

17

100

G IV

Submarine Yards

20

100

G V

Transportation

38

41.9 Loc.Bldg.
31.5 Loc.Repr.

G VI

Power

37

– – –

G VII

Oil

23

47.0

G VIII

Alumina

14

100

G IX

Rubber

2

47.5

Total Number of Targets

177

NOTES:

1. The systems are arranged in the order in which it is suggested they be attacked.

2. The first three systems relate to the German Air Force. In all cases the targets selected include 100% of the total output. If these targets were destroyed, Germany’s airplane building program would be brought to a standstill and her offensive and defensive air operations would rapidly decline as and when her operational airplanes were destroyed after using up any reserve. In the case of pursuit airplanes, Germany is known to have very few reserves.

3. The fourth system relates to U-boats and the targets include 100% of present production. If these targets were destroyed, Germany’s U-boat shipbuilding program would be brought to a standstill and the U-boat campaign would be gradually reduced as and when her operational subs were rendered inoperative. This would be accelerated by virtue of the fact that by destroying the yards all major servicing and repair facilities to operational U-boats would similarly cease.

4. The fifth system relates to transportation and covers locomotive building plants, locomotive repair shops, marshalling yards, and inland waterways. It is well known that Germany is extremely short of locomotives at present and the destruction of the repair facilities and concentrations of locomotives which might be found in those works would disrupt her general transportation system. This system is complementary to other systems in that it would prevent the diversion of raw materials to new centers of production when the original centers were destroyed.

5. The destruction of objectives in the sixth class – power – cannot be expressed quantitatively but if each of the thirty-seven (37) targets included were destroyed, industry would be very largely brought to a standstill and the effect on morale would be very great.

6. The remaining systems - oil, alumina, and rubber - represent three of the major commodities required by Germany in the prosecution of her war effort.

7. There is no doubt that if the targets included in these systems were successfully destroyed, the effect would be decisive and Germany would be unable to continue her war effort.