Sometimes you can be happy that some things went the way they did.

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These are naturally extreme possibilities but if some of them had happened instead...

Just something to think about:

1.What if the Air Ministry had ordered a new generation of biplane fighters, as they had wanted to? Planes that lacked the speed, the armament and the height to take on Hitler's Luftwaffe.

If the Air Ministry had had its way, the Luftwaffe would have been met by planes like the Tiger Moth.

2. What if Churchill's friend Professor Lindeman had had his way, and that work on an infrared detection system had replaced the development of radar?

3. What if Arthur Harris - appointed to Bomber Command at the same time Dowding was appointed to Fighter Command - had got his way, and Britain had concentrated on building bombers in 1938? Hitler's bombers would have got through.

4. What if Dowding had caved in to Churchill's demand for an extra ten squadrons of fighters for France in May 1940?

Dowding refused, and gave the War Cabinet his reasons.

The author tells us that no one spoke. No one supported him. They were all terrified of Churchill.

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