Nice to see that the DT can print the other side of the view point:-
[QUOTE]SIR – The RAF is hardly a "single-weapon service" like the Tank Corps as E C Coleman says (Letters, February 5).
His argument mentions the bombing of Germany. I prefer to consider the Battle of Britain, where if the aircraft had still belonged to the Army-led Royal Flying Corps, not an independent RAF, Fighter Command's aircraft would have been committed to the defence of the British Expeditionary Force in France, as Churchill wished, and even fewer fighters would have been left to defend Britain.
Only Air Chief Marshal Dowding's refusal to commit them, which led to much criticism from the Army, saved enough fighters to win the air battle.
Phil Mobbs
Marlborough, Wiltshire/QUOTE]
I doubt that EC Coleman will be silenced though. Once a Luddite always a Luddite!!