It’s been recently suggested that Beaverbrook’s campaign was really little more than a propaganda exercise offering otherwise helpless citizens a chance to feel they were contributing to the war effort. As Rob Skitmore put it, "in actual fact we had lots of aluminium, what we needed more of were pilots."

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