"9" . _:vb6794377 "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."@en . _:vb6794379 "2010, Richard H. Kraemer, The Secret War in the Balkans, Author House, \u2192ISBN, page 136:"@en . _:vb6794378 "1948, The Army Air Forces in World War II, volume 3, Office of Air Force History, \u2192ISBN, page 495:"@en . _:vb6794376 . _:vb6794377 "1945, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 217, Curtis Publishing Company, \u2192OCLC, page 79:"@en . . _:vb6794376 "(UK, WWII) An airborne propaganda leaflet."@en . _:vb6794379 "Nickels, the code-name for propaganda leaflets, were ordinary 8-1/2\u00D711\" sheets of paper either printed on both sides or folded in half and printed on all four sides. [\u2026] 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."@en . _:vb6794377 . _:vb6794378 . _:vb6794379 . _:vb6794378 "Many types of nickels were used in psychological warfare. Classified according to general purpose, there were strategic and tactical leaflets."@en .