I never engaged in these idiotic pamphlet-dropping exercises. They only served two purposes really — they gave the German defences endless practice in getting ready for it, and apart from that they supplied a considerable quantity of toilet paper to the Germans.
They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
People talk a lot about picking out targets and bombing them, individual small targets – in the European climate? I’ve come to the conclusion that people who say that sort of thing not only have never been outside, but they’ve never looked out of a window.