Charles E. Fritz (1921 – 5 May 2000) was an American scientist pioneering disaster research during and following the Second World War.
[1] During the Second World War Fritz was a Captain in the United States Army Air Forces.
[2] Whilst in Bath, where his courtship of his wife enabled a more intimate experience of English social relations, he witnessed a remarkable resilience in the face of the danger and deprivations of war and the arrival of 6 million - 8 million American and allied troops.
[2] In 1945 he was stationed to Teddington as part of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) where his role was to produce 70 volumes involved in the study of the impact of the US strategic bombing of Germany in terms of its economic, demographic, industrial, morale, organizational and physical effects.
[2] Fritz joined the National Opinion Research Center as associate director of the Disaster Project.