Just saw the second part of "Fighting the Blue" about women as ATA pilots.
Very interesting, how many of them transferred fighters like the Spitfire.
And how they only lived from day to day.
I was quite shocked, to see how badly Dowding and Keith Park were treated.
None of them was left in office with the end of the Battle of Britain, because some
"pushy-elbow type carreer vultures" served them off, icecold?
The documentation said, that, if Mallory had introduced his "Big Wing" idea
at the beginning of BoB, England would have probably lost the fight.
And when Dowding requested two inch bulletproof glass for the windshields
of the fighters, the "Lords of Decisions" laughed at him. He had to insist by
saying: "When the Mafia in New York have it - why not my pilots?"
And they only gave it to him, because the losses of pilots were just too high.
Hugh Dowding got a memorial statue not earlier than 1988? What a shame!