Dowding and Churchill
It is well known that Dowding was quite forthright in appraising Churchill and the Ministry of the facts, but Churchill must have trusted him as he never sought to replace the head of Fighter command,even though he was not getting what he wanted from him in the way of throwing extra resources in to a hopeless case baslket. Dowding knew that destroying the RAF was going to be difficult for the Germans but also that he would be hard put to maintain a high level of interceptions as his pilot experience level dropped. He knew his front line bases were vulnerable, but the Germans were taking looses that they could not sustain,so it was a classic 'campaign' that came down to making the least mistakes.Goerings crews soon realised that the RAF was far from a spent force and no doubt the word soon spread around his force which would hardly encourage them to believe their leader anymore. This dramatic situation to a force that had only known victory and low looses would have has a serious affect on overall morale,and Dowding knew this. Of course it would have been helpful to Dowding and Park had LM been rather more supportive, but in crucial conflict you have to concentrate on whats important at the time not get drawn in to the in fighting behind the scenes. Dowding was overdue to retire before the Battle, and Park of course came back to see Malta well led.They both were fully vindicated when the real facts became better known.