Talk:Hugh Dowding

message: Please discuss. Wallie (talk) 15:48, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Discuss what. You need to do more than give us a rather obscure title for us to discuss something. Skinny87 (talk) 16:02, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

text: After some looking about in the history, I agree with the above - that category is nonsensical and poorly worded. As it is now, it would seem to hint at some sort of Scottish airforce and their commanders. Skinny87 (talk) 16:04, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It does not. It is a category for Scottish people who are Air Marshals. It does not mention a Scottish Air Force. Wallie (talk) 16:20, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's implied in the title, Wallie, and it's still a poorly-worded category. I'd suggest renaming it. Skinny87 (talk) 16:23, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: What to? Wallie (talk) 16:51, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not brilliant, but you need to get rid of the implication that they're Air Marshals of a Scottish air force. Perhaps 'Air Marshals (Scottish) perhaps, or 'Air Marshals born in Scotland'? The latter might be the best. Skinny87 (talk) 16:58, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scottish air marshals 

message: This article really ought to have more detail on his work before WWII in virtually creating the Fighter Command of 1940. E.g. it briefly mentions that he 'favoured' radar (or some words to that effect), but he had much more of an active role in its creation and uptake than that, as Air Member for Research and Development in 1935, where he undertook to fully fund the work immediately after the Daventry test, which led to the creation of Bawdsey. And his role in the acquisition of the 8-gun monoplane fighters was also very large.
I don't think it's too gilding the lily to say that he first created the tools, then from 1936 forged them into a integrated system (the warning and command-control system of Fighter Command), and finally commanded it during the most important battle of WWII.
I am a bit too busy to do this at the moment, but if nobody else steps up, I can do it - I have all the right references (all the Dowding/Fighter command books; all the early radar books by Bowen, Watson-Watt, etc; a good collection of Spitfire/Hurricane books, etc). Noel (talk) 18:03, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The detail on his creation of the Ground-controlled interception (GCI) is now comprehensive. Dormskirk (talk) 14:13, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Dowding's air defence method using radar is/was known as the 'Dowding System'.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.31.130.17 (talk) 10:45, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs more pre-WWII detail 

message: Did the book, "Twelve Legions of Angles" have anything of importance in it? As the British government suppressed it until after the war, it would appear that it did. I Goggled it, but didn't find much.--TGC55 (talk) 17:55, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: it may be that the UK Government was simply sensitive about the release of information on UK military locations. Dormskirk (talk) 14:14, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book - Twelve Legions of Angels? 

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thread_title:  Coat of arms 

message: After the Battle of the Somme, Dowding clashed with General Hugh Trenchard, the commander of the RFC, over the need to give pilots some rest and recuperation.
:Which of them was advocating R&R? Valetude (talk) 11:36, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Dunno, but I've just been reading about his clash with Trenchard in Trevor Wilson's "Myriad Faces of War". Late during the Somme battle Dowding expressed his displeasure with Trenchard's costly and probably wasteful policy of having fighter planes raid aggressively deep into German territory. Trenchard thought him a foot-dragger. Wilson's view is basically that Trenchard's charisma and force of character greatly exceeded his competence.Paulturtle (talk) 21:07, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clash with Trenchard