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    Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was a senior officer in the Royal...
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    Coastal Command, Training Command and Fighter Command. The last was under Hugh Dowding, who opposed the doctrine that bombers were unstoppable: the invention...
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    1992. Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding (1882–1970) Derek Hugh Tremenheere Dowding, 2nd Baron Dowding (1919–1992) Piers Hugh Tremenheere...
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  • operational status, leading Dowding to do the same for the Canadian and Czech trainees. While discussing the day's events, Park and Dowding examine the German...
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    Dowding system was developed after tests demonstrated problems relaying information to the fighters before it was out of date. Air Chief Marshal Hugh...
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  • historian and biographer of Hugh Dowding, the RAF's commanding officer in the Battle of Britain. Wright served as Dowding's personal assistant during the...
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    Ministry, particularly with Sholto Douglas, that led to the replacement of Hugh Dowding and Keith Park on 25 November 1940, less than a month after the end of...
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    obviate the need for night operations and their inherent disadvantages. Hugh Dowding, Air Officer Commanding Fighter Command, defeated the Luftwaffe in the...
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    Sholto Douglas, the deputy CAS, felt Dowding was not dealing adequately with the situation. On 17 October Dowding and Park attended a meeting, chaired...
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  • Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding (née Albino; other married name Whiting; 22 March 1908 – 20 November 1993) was an English humanitarian and animal rights...
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    2013, includes the original office of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding (later Lord Dowding), Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Fighter Command in the Battle...
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  • Hugh Dowding was an officer in the Royal Air Force. Dowding may also refer to: Dowding (surname) Baron Dowding, British peerage created in 1943 for ACM...
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    Frontier, where he first encountered his future colleague Hugh Dowding; at an exercise in 1909, Dowding's artillery section ambushed Newall's Gurkhas whilst...
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  • Keith Dowding (activist), Australian Presbyterian minister Leilani Dowding, British glamour model Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding, wife of Hugh Dowding; English...
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  • Hugh Dowd (born 19 May 1951) was a Northern Irish former professional footballer. Born in Lurgan, Dowd was an accomplished centre half, initially making...
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    Harris Another Mother's Son (2017) as De La Haye Hurricane (2018) as Sir Hugh Dowding The Coldest Game (2019) as Griswald Moran Dream Horse (2020) as Philip...
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  • refusing to carry out their duties is also called a myth. Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding is Deighton's hero in the book and was one of the few people who perceived...
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    under the head of Fighter Command during the battle, Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding. Key: HQ = Group headquarters SS = Sector station SA = Satellite aerodrome...
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  • statistics, worked as a political tool for those against Dowding. Dowding had clashed with Hugh Trenchard (founder of the RAF) while both were Royal Flying...
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    October 1940 he supported Douglas, moving Park and Dowding and appointing Douglas to replace Dowding as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command...
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    book on the subject entitled Mitigation of Slavery. Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, was born...
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  • Engagements World War II Cold War Commanders Notable commanders Sir Hugh Dowding Sir Sholto Douglas Aircraft flown Fighter Hawker Hurricane Supermarine...
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    was the Dowding System, after its chief architect, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the air officer commanding RAF Fighter Command. Dowding modernised...
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    squadrons and their unsurpassed gallantry," wrote Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, head of RAF Fighter Command, "I hesitate to say that the outcome of...
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    both Fighter Command and Bomber Command during the Second World War—Hugh Dowding and Charles Portal, respectively; and two Viceroys of India, Archibald...
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    at the southern end of town there is a memorial to Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding who was born in the town in 1882. He was the commander of RAF Fighter...
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    of 10 fighter squadrons to provide air support, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, Commander-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command, insisted that this number...
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    Britain - Excerpts from an Historic Despatch by Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding,Flight, 19 September 1946, p323 Featherstone-Haugh, JJ. (1973). "Appendix...
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    with which to remove Park and Dowding from command and pursue the Big Wing tactic. Keith Park, with endorsement from Dowding, opted for the opposite strategy...
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    took many steps and was very slow. Henry Tizard, Patrick Blackett, and Hugh Dowding immediately set to work on this problem, designing a 'command and control...
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