Dowding is retired from the RAF

24th November 1940: An ungrateful bureaucracy quietly lets go one of its supreme military strategists, who has played a critical role in winning 'the Battle of Britain'

Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding (1882-1970)

Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding ( RAF Fighter Command 1936-1940) had been the driving force behind the development of Britain’s air defences in the immediate pre-war period. He had organised and overseen the integration of radar within the RAF command structure and had championed the development of both the Hurri…