Letter from Barnes Wallis to Leonard Cheshire

Letter from Barnes Wallis to Leonard Cheshire

On Vickers-Armstrong headed paper classified secret. Write saying that he will send bombing charts at once.

1944-04-25

One-page typewritten lettsr

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[Crest]
Vickers-Armstrongs Limited.
(AIRCRAFT SECTION)
WEYBRIDGE WORKS,
WEYBRIDGE, SURREY.



OUR REF. CA
YOUR REF. GLC/DO. 25th April 1944

Wing Commander G.L. Cheshire, D.S.O., R.A.F., R.A.F.
No.617 Squadron,
Royal Air Force Station,
[underlined] Woodhall Spa, Lincs. [/underlined] [underlined] SECRET [/underlined]

My dear Cheshire,
Squadron Leader Richardson tells me that you are in a hurry for the prints of your bombing charts and I am therefore dispatching them at once without waiting to complete our work. I will let you have our notes on the results as soon as they are ready.
Yours sincerely,
[underlined] B.N. Wallis [underlined]