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Hugh Trenchard, the father of the RAF and the fledgling service’s first Marshal, was a long-serving but reserved and divisive figure. Historian Peter Hart, however, asks if the frequent assessment of him as one of the metaphoric ‘donkeys’ of the Great War might be a fair calculation.
The Father of the RAF
REPUTATIONS
Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Hugh Trenchard, RFC, as painted
William Orpen.
ugh Trenchard
has aroused much
controversy over
the aggressive tactics
he pursued during his period
