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Excellent thought, does anyone know of an interet source (or book) that gives a service biography of RAF Air Vice Marshals and SASO's - not only wartime but also the period in the late thirties leading up to it?

Considering his previous service experience - I don't understand how Leigh-Mallory got command of 12 Group in the first place!? But I don't know enough about alternatives.

Park should have taken over after Dowding - it would have been interesting to see what alternative tactics he would have used with the RAF over France in '41.

Dowding new the 'system' and the resources he had - and indeed what he needed! He was a strategist rather than a tactician, Courtney was due to take-over but was ill, he may have been a better tactician, but would he have allowed more squadrons to go to France?

The main problem with Coastal Command was the aircraft & numbers available, rather than the commanders.

Should Harris have stayed so long in charge if Bomber Command? He obstructed the formation of the Pathfinders, and was fixated about 'German morale' i.e. did his best to avoid Pointblank directives. But who else, Cochrane or Bennet??

After his success with defending RAF Habbaniya in '41, pity higher command couldn't be found for AVM H G Smart!