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Trenchard

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Trenchard
Hugh Montague, 1st Viscount. 1873--1956, British air marshal, who as chief of air staff (1918, 1919--27) and marshal of the RAF (1927--29) established the RAF as a fully independent service. As commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (1931--35) he founded the police college at Hendon


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According to John Keegan in The Second World War, Trenchard used bombing as a way to "achieve the maximum effect on morale by striking at the most sensitive part of the German population--namely the working class.
We have come a long way from the days of Smuts, Mitchell, Douhet, and Trenchard.
 
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