Noel Stephen Paynter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetNoel Stephen Paynter
British aerial warfare pioneer
Date of Birth: 26-Dec-1898
Place of Birth: Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 16-Mar-1998
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Noel Stephen Paynter
- Air Commodore Noel Stephen "Peter" Paynter (26 December 1898 – 16 March 1998) was a former chief intelligence officer of Bomber Command.
- Paynter was a senior member of the team which ran RAF Bomber Command under its formidable commander-in-chief, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, throughout the last three years of the Second World War.
- His reports, as head of intelligence, lay behind many of the raids on German cities, which remain the subject of controversy.
- Paynter insisted to the end that reliable sources had led them to believe that the Nazis had hidden large munitions stores in such historic towns as Dresden; Hitler thought that the Allies would not attack them.
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