The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.
— Prime Minister Winston Churchill, memorandum for the Cabinet, 3 September 1940.
Winston Churchill eh?
I knew there was something I liked about that guy.
Ha ha. I knew you zoomies would like it. . .
Eye’s in the Air. My ex-brother-in-law was a msgt who was a radarman on the Connies in the Nam. They have 20-20 all over the world.
Did we have any carriers in the Atlantic at that time? Besides the unsinkable one (otherwise known as the UK)