Colonel Hazeltine still had trouble persuading air commanders to drop the nickels. Pilots profanely protested against risking their necks on such foolishness. But in the end 15,000,000 leaflets a week were being dropped on Sicily and Italy.
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1945, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 217, Curtis Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 79:
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Many types of nickels were used in psychological warfare. Classified according to general purpose, there were strategic and tactical leaflets.
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1948, The Army Air Forces in World War II, volume 3, Office of Air Force History, →ISBN, page 495:
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Nickels, the code-name for propaganda leaflets, were ordinary 8-1/2×11" sheets of paper either printed on both sides or folded in half and printed on all four sides. […] On most of our flights, after leaving the DZ or landing strip we distributed 150 to 450 pounds of nickels over designated areas, and a few of our missions were nickel runs only.
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2010, Richard H. Kraemer, The Secret War in the Balkans, Author House, →ISBN, page 136: