Word: trenchard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down a deserted London street marched bluff old Air Marshal Hugh Montague, Viscount ("Boom") Trenchard, onetime chief of Scotland Yard. As he reached the corner, a bobby saluted cordially, informed him he had just walked over a time bomb. "Why didn't you stop me?" roared Lord Trenchard. "Oh, we recognized you, sir," replied the policeman...
...been hit. On British ports had fallen 17,000,000 pounds of bombs, and 700 raids had concentrated on airdromes. The British, for their part, admitted some damage to factories. But they claimed that plants planned by farsighted Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague, Viscount ("Boom") Trenchard were just now getting into full production, so that the net loss was nil. Somewhere between the two opposing claims lay the truth...