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Old 22nd Jun 2020, 16:28
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Chugalug2
 
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Veep:-
The solution the RAF arrived at was "Air policing", a policy which Air Commodore Lionel Charlton (who later resigned over the matter) described as using aerial bombs as a substitute for police truncheons. Crushing insurrection with the indiscriminate use of aerial bombs and poison gas against civilian homes
Me:-
Are you saying that the RAF used poison gas in "Air Policing"? If so, where and when?
veep :-
The RAF certainly advocated it's use, and I mentioned it only as theythey regarded the use of poison gas as compatible with their air policing doctrine and certainly requested that they be allowed to use it. Whether they actually were allowed to deploy poison gas is less clear, although the army used gas shells during the same time period for basically the same purpose.
So the RAF did not use poison gas in Air Policing, nor it seems even wished to. Your other insinuation is that it used indiscriminate bombing in Air Policing. Where, when? The SOP was to drop leaflets in the local language warning that a village (for example) would be bombed the following day and that the occupants should therefore vacate it beforehand. Severe 'policing' to be sure, but that was to contain armed insurrection in a League of Nations mandated territory by the armed forces of the state authorised to enforce the mandate. But you speak of indiscriminate bombing, so again; where, when?
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