Originally Posted by
veep
Interesting that you make this point. According to Harris's philosophy, everyone - civilian or soldier alike - is an equal target for bomber crews.
We certainly did understand that our forecasts could be used against WP targets, especially when I was a senior forecaster at JHQ.
Not only that, we produced TAFS for specific airfield targets ........
All four or five NATO Met teams at our upper echelon competed, judged against against the actuals, with the adjudication by CMetO SHAPE.
And yes, the Brits ALWAYS won, every week.
[And no women in my day, they were just coming on stream and very good they were indeed]