Finest Hour – July 2019

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FINEST HOUR THIRD QUARTER 2019 • NUMBER 185 Churchill depicted in honorary Air Commodore uniform by unknown artist, circa 1940– ...

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Finest Hour 183 LONDON—I read with great interest Fred Glueckstein’s excellent article “Watching Winston: Churchill and His Pers ...

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A ir Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon served in the Royal Air Force for forty years, culmi- nating with his time as Chief of th ...

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By Fred Glueckstein October 1913 On the 29th Mr. Winston Churchill, flying with the late Cap- tain Lushington, R.M.A., took cont ...

Endnotes “Churchill an Aviator: British Minister Guides a Biplane for Forty-five Minutes,” New York Times, 2 December 1913, p. ...

W inston Churchill was an air power enthusiast. He saw early on that aircraft were transform- ing the international balance of p ...

end. Britain’s superiority in the air over the battlefields of France and Belgium proved an important factor in the defeat of Ge ...

ARMING FOR ARMAGEDDON Above left Stanley Baldwin Above right Sir Hugh Trenchard, the “Father of the RAF” Left Sir Samuel Hoare ( ...

One of the things which we were told after the Great War would be a security for us was that Germany would be a democracy with p ...

Political Opposition B ritain certainly possessed the industrial, financial, demographic, and scientific resources to build a po ...

say MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin flawed leaders who did not provide the requisite drive to meet Hitler’s chal- lenge.^14 Coming ...

Endnotes Winston S. Churchill, Thoughts and Adventures (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1932), p. 181. Diary entry, 4–6 September ...

C hurchill also emphasised England’s extreme geo- graphical vulnerability to air attack. While Ber- lin was some 600 miles away, ...