Target for Tonight: The Italian Campaign Expansion

The RAF’s planned campaign objectives for the night bombing campaign against Italy was laid out in this excerpt from the «Defeat of Italy by Air Attack Alone» report, issued by the Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee. 16 April 1943.

«The industrial life of Italy as a whole depends upon the North… If this weight of attack could be concentrated on the main centres of Italian industry such as Milan, Turin and Genoa, it would effectively paralyse activity at those centres, create widespread civil chaos and conditions such that it would be impossible to continue to plan the supply and maintenance of Italy’s armed forces.»

On 10 June 1940, Air-Vice Marshall Norman Bottomly issued «Operation Instruction No. 36». This document highlighted that Bomber Command’s objectives in attacking Italy were:

«… to cripple the Italian aircraft industry, to destroy stocks of oil, and to cause widespread disturbance and demoralization amongst the Italian population, especially in the Northern Industrial Area.»

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