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	Hugh Dowding
		Lord Sir Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding G.C.B., G.C.V.O.,C.M.G. was born in Moffat, Scotland on April 24, 1882.
		Dowding now joined the recently created Royal Air Force and in 1929 was promoted to vice marshal and the following year joined the Air Council.
		Dowding was then sent on special duty in the United States for the Ministry of Aircraft Production before retiring from the Royal Air Force in July, 1942.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hu/Hugh_Dowding.html (331 words)

	Hugh Dowding Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lord Sir Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.M.G. was born in Moffat, Scotland on April 24, 1882.
		In 1940 Dowding, nicknamed "Stuffy" by his men, proved unwilling to sacrifice aircraft and pilots in the attempt to aid Allied troops during the Battle of France.
		Dowding was then sent on special duty in the United States for the Ministry of Aircraft Production, where he made himself unpopular with his outspoken behaviour.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/h/hu/hugh_dowding.html (755 words)

	Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding
		Dowding naît à Moffat le 24 Avril 1882.
		Dowding's military career goes to show that his foresight and competence were largely responsible for the organisation of an effective air-defence system for Grande-Bretagne.
		Hugh Dowding did look into the pay needs even of the lowly Observers, who despite his best efforts received no more than £ 3 per week for 56 hours on duty in all weathers and in any hour of the day or night.
	www.rr0.org /DowdingHugh.html (1698 words)

	Tours of Scotland, my native homeland.
		Hugh Dowding, the son of a schoolmaster, was born in Moffat, Scotland, on 24th April, 1882.
		Dowding took command of Fighter Command where he argued that the Air Ministry should concentrate on development of aircraft for the defence of Britain rather than producing a fleet of bombers.
		During the Battle of Britain Dowding was criticized by Air Vice Marshal William Sholto Douglas, assistant chief of air staff, and Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, for not being aggressive enough.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /hugh-dowding.htm (589 words)

	Significant Scots - Hugh Dowding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		“Hugh Dowding is considered one of the masterminds behind the victory in the Battle of Britain - one of the most prominent battles in World War Two.
		Dowding is seen as one of the more important military commanders of the war.
		“Dowding was born in Scotland in April 1882 and educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/dowding_hugh.htm (213 words)

	Moffat Town Website, Scotland - People - Lord Hugh Dowding
		Hugh Dowding was born in Moffat in 1882, living in Moffat for his first fifteen years.
		Dowding's military career goes to show that his foresight and competence were largely responsible for the organisation of an effective air-defence system for Great Britain.
		Dowding held to two basic convictions: the first, that the RAF would need to be desroyed before an invasion of Britain could be attempted, the second, that his Observers were there to provide the RAF with intelligence on aircraft movements over land, where radar was less effective.
	www.dalbeattie.com /moffat/people/dowding.html (1616 words)

	Leaders and Commanders
		Dowding was the eldest son of a preparatory schoolmaster and was brought up with a Victorian middle-class background.
		Hugh Dowding was not a man that made friends easily, he was a difficult sort of man, arrogant to many, a very self-opinionated man who was a loner and described by many as rather eccentric.
		Dowding would remember this when 12 Group was called upon to assist and protect the northern fighter bases of 11 Group, Leigh-Mallory employed the 'Big Wing' theory and it proved to be a failure.
	www.battleofbritain.net /0002.html (4989 words)

	The Campaign for Philosophical Freedom
		During the Battle of France, it was Dowding who faced down Winston Churchill and, after a heated argument, persuaded the prime minister not to send the few remaining fighter aircraft of the RAF to that country in what would have been a fruitless attempt to reinforce the British Expeditionary Force.
		Dowding was disappointed that ill-conceived political animosity had removed any further opportunity of serving his country, but he bore Churchill and the others no ill will.
		Dowding is then questioned as to whether those who caused him to be removed from his post as Chief of Fighter Command, many of whom are now presumably discarnate, have become aware of what they had done.
	www.cfpf.org.uk /articles/mediums/dowding-jjs.html (2304 words)

	Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dowding often referred to his "dear fighter boys" as his "chicks".
		Dowding and his wife Lady Muriel Dowding were both vegetarians and anti-vivisectionists.
		Other monuments to Dowding can be found in the recreational park in Moffat, the town of his birth; in Royal Tunbridge Wells where he died, and there is a bust of him in the War Memorial Cloisters at Winchester College.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugh_Dowding (1386 words)

	Second World War Books Review
		Dowding went on to command a squadron of fighters, but ran afoul of Hugh Trenchard and found himself transferred to a training position where he still managed to antagonize Trenchard by refusing to shorten the curriculum for trainee pilots.
		Dowding returns to center stage at the point when he became chief of Fighter Command in 1936, but to the mundane facts of assuming command Fisher writes that Dowding would in that era lie in bed at night and wonder if his dead wife was trying to reach out to him.
		Although he initially indicates Dowding was ambushed in a choreographed plot by officers who disagreed with (and disliked) him, Fisher enumerates a number of reasons why it was not unreasonable to appoint a new head of Fighter Command.
	www.sonic.net /~bstone/archives/051120.shtml (2975 words)

	The Battle of Britain 1940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hugh Dowding was not a man that made friends easily, he was a difficult sort of man, arrogant to many, a very self-opiniated man who was a loner and described by many as rather eccentric.
		Dowding continued to have constant brushes with the political heavies, he had done his job, he had succedded in winning the Battle of Britain.
		Dowding would remember this when 12 Group was called upon to assist and protect the nothern fighter bases of 11 Group, Leigh-Mallory employed the 'Big Wing' theory and it proved to be a failure.
	www.history-world.org /commanders.htm (3722 words)

	The British Postal Museum & Archive - Hugh Dowding & Fighter Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hugh Dowding joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1913 and later became commander of 16 Squadron.
		Dowding was widowed early in marriage and threw himself into his career, whilst raising his son Derek, who later became an officer under Dowding in RAF Fighter Command.
		Dowding was due to retire in June 1939, but was asked to stay on until March 1940 because of the tense international situation.
	www.postalheritage.org.uk /exhibitions/ww2stamps/dowding/view (453 words)

	SpitfireSpares.com - warbird Reference
		Hugh Dowding was born into a middle class Victorian family on 24 April 1882.
		Dowding, being closely allied with Park, was caught in the midst of this controversy.
		The situation was not helped by Dowding's own reticent and reserved character, which had in fact earned him the nickname of 'stuffy' early on in his career.
	www.spitfirespares.com /SpitfireSpares.com/Pages/reference.html (2110 words)

	Battle of Britain information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This was known as the 'Dowding System' after its chief architect, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the leader of RAF Fighter Command.
		Though it was the most sophisticated air defence system in the world at that time, the Dowding System had many limitations including, but not often stressed, its emphatic need for suitably qualified ground maintenance personnel, many of whom had received their training under the Aircraft Apprentice scheme instituted by Hugh Trenchard.
		Dowding's and Park's strategy of choosing when to engage the enemy whilst maintaining a coherent force was totally vindicated.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Battle_of_Britain (6764 words)

	Overview of Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born in Moffat, the son of a school-master, Dowding was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.
		Despite this success, Dowding was criticised for his tactics by his rivals, principally William Sholto Douglas and Trafford Leigh-Mallory, and was removed from his post in Fighter Command in October 1940.
		Dowding was knighted in 1934 and elevated to a peerage, as Lord Dowding of Bentley Priory, in 1943.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/people/famousfirst133.html (201 words)

	Hugh Dowding
		Dowding now joined the recently created Royal Air Force and in 1929 was promoted to air vice marshal and the following year joined the Air Council.
		Dowding worked closely with Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park, the commander of No. 11 Fighter Group, in covering the evacuation at Dunkirk.
		I had a visit from Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding (now Lord Dowding), who had been relieved of Fighter Command after the Battle of Britain was over.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWdowding.htm (1154 words)

	Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding
		At wars end, Brigadier Dowding was in command of all flight training in England.
		In 1930, Air Vice Marshal Dowding was appointed to the Air Council as Member for Supply and Research - a key position in which he was to influence the development and procurement policies of the Royal Air Force so vital to its successes in World War II.
		The epic Battle of Britain in July, August, and September of 1940 - the only battle in the history of the world to be fought entirely in the air - with Hugh Dowding leading his charges day and night by his sagacious employment of limited resources, had saved England from certain destruction.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/dowding.htm (487 words)

	University of New Brunswick Archives & Special Collections-Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding fonds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dowding was a squadron commander in the Royal Flying Corps in World War I. After serving in command, staff, and training positions in Britain and Asia, he became chief of the newly created Fighter Command in 1936.
		Dowding was British air chief marshal and head of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (1940) in World War II.
		Hugh Dowding died on February 15, 1970 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.
	www.lib.unb.ca /archives/dowding.html (194 words)

	Hoffman Review: Summer 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The continued refinement of the submarine; the introduction of electronic warfare, with radio, radar, and sonar; the maturation of armored warfare; and the development of the airplane as a strategic instrument and its use at sea, all contributed to an extremely dramatic era in military innovation.
		Although people like "Billy" Mitchell, William Moffett, John H. Towers, Hugh Trenchard, Sir Hugh Dowding, John Fuller, Sir Basil Liddell Hart, Charles DeGaulle, and Heinz Guderian were all prominent forces in the development of new capabilities during this era, not all of their names are synonymous with good fortune in their respective fields.
		As Muller shows in his wonderful essay on close air support, were it not for Dowding, "the few" that saved England in the summer of 1940 might not have had a chance.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/1997/summer/bkr1su97.htm (2036 words)

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		This upset those in authority and was ordered to appear before Hugh Dowding, the head of Fighter Command.
		He took the view that RAF fighters should be sent out to meet the German planes before they reached Britain.
		Hugh Dowding rejected this strategy as being too dangerous and argued it would increase the number of pilots being killed.
	www.angelfire.com /biz/pjah/dbader.html (1988 words)

	Lord Hugh Dowding Statue, Strand - London - UK Attraction
		This statue outside the St Clement Danes Church is a memorial to one of the unsung heroes of the Second World War.
		Giving his full rank as ‘Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, Baron of Bentley Prior and Commander-in-Chief of the Fighter Command of the RAF’, the statue was completed in the 1990s.
		Lord Dowding is remembered for his significant help in winning many air battles, thanks to his realisation of the importance of radar in combat.
	www.ukattraction.com /london/lord-hugh-dowding-statue.htm (204 words)

	A Few of the Few - Polish Aviation History Page
		The British were at first reluctant to use them for operational duties, but after the German invasion of France, in view of her imminent collapse, the Air Ministry agreed to form two Polish bomber squadrons, as part of the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve.
		Sir Hugh Dowding strongly opposed forming Polish fighter squadrons - for which the Polish government in exile pressed very hard - but in view of rapidly deteriorating military situation, with Britain's very survival depending on the Few fighter pilots it could muster, an agreement was finally reached on August 5, 1940.
		In terms of numbers, in the crucial days of September 1940, every one in eight pilots of the Fighter Command was a Pole, and 303 Squadron's contribution was nothing short of amazing.
	ww2-aviation.net /polavhist/bob.html (1623 words)

	dowdy / Dowdy (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)
		Dowdy, Dowding, Hugh Dowding, Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding
		British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970).
		Dowding, Hugh Dowding, Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding
	www.hyperdic.net /dic/dowdy.htm (155 words)

	History of Vegetarianism - Lord Dowding (1882-1970) - Lady Dowding (1908- ?) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		History of Vegetarianism - Lord Dowding (1882-1970) - Lady Dowding (1908- ?)
		Lord Dowding's full name was: Air Chief Marshall Lord Hugh Dowding, and the charity named in his honour is the Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research.
		Began Beauty WIthout Cruelty, was the wife of a famous soldier and Lord - source: A book.
	www.ivu.org /history/europe20b/dowding.html (346 words)

	A Summer Bright And Terrible: Winston Churchill, Lord Dowding, And the Impossible Triumph of the Bat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An in-depth analysis of Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshall Hugh Dowding's pivotal contributions to the Battle of Britain describes the superstitions that marked his life, his military career, and his role in spearheading radar technology.
		For Dowding, initially as the Royal Air Force's chief of technical research, and subsequently as head of Fighter Command, resisted numerous dubious ideas from on high; chaperoned by Churchill's childish excitement, the bad ideas, like sending Britain's fighter squadrons to France, could have had dire consequences but for Dowding's stout opposition.
		Featuring a lively narrative peppered with summary judgments, Fisher's profile of the eccentric Dowding merits the allegiance of the WWII audience.
	www.booksmatter.com /b1593760477.htm (261 words)

	Amazon.com: "Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Commander-in-Chief Fighter Command, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, calculated that he needed a minimum of 46 squadrons with 736 fighters to defend the entire spread of targets ranging...
		The second was Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, in charge of Fighter Command since 1937.
		The RAF pilots, under the command of the unwavering Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, knew that the future of their country and of the free world hinged on their repulsing the aerial barrage.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Air-Chief-Marshal-Sir-Hugh-Dowding (657 words)

	Unit Plan
		The teacher will guide the discussion, adding points or facts that may help the students have a more in depth discussion.
		Using handouts or the textbook; Winston Churchill, Herman Goring, Adolf Galland, James Watson-Watt, and Hugh Dowding will be identified and discussed.
		The purpose of this lesson is to identify what the students know about the Battle of Britain, this will give insight to what they know other than the United States experience in WWII.
	www.usd.edu /~afleek/unit_plan.htm (2161 words)

	Hugh Dowding- WordWeb dictionary definition
		British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defence forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)
		- Dowding, Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, Dowdy
		Encyclopedia: Hugh Dowding Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
	www.wordwebonline.com /en/HUGHDOWDING (38 words)

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