Talk:Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard

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[edit] SYSTEMATICAL ATTACK ON CIVILIANS

This britsh area bombing directive nr. 42 lead to a systimatical attacking of the geman civil populatiuon. the british attacks were concentrated on workingclass quarters and midivael citycenters. The goal was pure terror against civilians. The amount of civilian loses were enormous. In Hamburg (55.000 dead, in Dresden betwenn 25.000 and 35.000 dead, in Pforzheim 20.277 dead ,31,4 % of all inhabitants, in Darmstadt 12.500 dead, 66.000 homeless out of former 110.000 inhabitants, Kassel 10.000 dead, Heilbronn 6500 dead, Würzburg 8500 dead etc. Churcill, Harris, Lindmann and many other bristish politicians and military personell was not sentenced for his warcrimes after the war.--Kastorius 16:44, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

And what does that have to do with Trenchard? -- Necrothesp 18:16, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Many of the listed bombing raids were made in response to similar German raids, but this really does have very little to do with Trenchard.--86.135.32.176 18:26, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

It's true that Trenchard wasn't directly involved in the bombing policies implemented by Allied air forces during WW.II. However, he had been a forceful advocate of strategic bombing as an instrument of war and it was largely due to his influence that this philosophy was established within the Royal Air Force, during it's formative years. Perhaps that should be noted in the main article. --J.Fowler —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.145.241.235 (talk) 11:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Flying school and wings

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I have read the German article Hugh Trenchard, it is very rudimentary and misses a lot of material. There is nothing about his time in africa, almost nothing about pre-wwi, little about wwi and not enough about WWII. Also it lacks the more important boxes at the end of the article. In the english article under subchapter "Flying School" we should clarify under which circumstances Trenchard earned his wings. Ralph Barker writes in his book that it was only possible for him to do it before he was 40 years because he was helped by a friend who was with him in Africa who then worked at the flying school. Also a friend of mine who is in the RAF has found it very doubious how he could accomplish to earn his before he got 40. He thinks that Trenchard had signed the papers probably by himself. Is there any explicit mention in the Andrew Boyle source about this incident? I dont have this book in my library. Outstanding work on the english article so far. Greetings --Panth (talk) 10:40, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

I have responded here:

Boyle goes into some detail on Trenchard's time at the Central Flying School (pp 100 to 114) but does not mention how he earned his wings exactly. Boyle notes that he was appointed school examiner and points out the irony of this (presumably in light of Trenchard's educational difficulties). The http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Trenchard.htm page, does mention how Trenchard earned his wings and I have included it in the article. As regards the age of 40, Boyle implies (p 96) that Trenchard needed to get his civilian aero certificate and enroll at the CFS before 40, not complete his course / get his wings. Greenshed (talk) 14:11, 25 May 2008 (UTC)