Did Churchill have faith in the RAF?

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On the 20th of August 1940 Winston Churchill made his famous ‘Never was so much owed by so many to so few’ speech. This occurred at the time of the Battle of Britain when the RAF was fighting a vital air battle with the German Luftwaffe over British airspace ahead of a supposed German Invasion of the Island (what would have been Operation Sea Lion). The ‘Few’ that Churchill speaks of are the pilots of the RAF. In that speech alone it is clear as to how much he valued the RAF. Churchill’s faith in the RAF was vindicated by a RAF victory in this battle.

However going forward it is clear that Churchill saw the RAF as vital to the British war effort. Aircraft production was substantially increased and the RAF played an important role in

• Operation Millennium(Bombing of Cologne)
• Operation Chastise (Dambuster raid in the Ruhr valley)
• Operation Gomorrah (Bombing of Hamburg)
• The Battle of Berlin
• Operation Carthage (attack on Gestapo HQ in Copenhagen)
• The Bombing of Dresden
• The Bombing of Pfozheim
• The Bombing of Heilbronn

It was during this time that the RAF developed the notion of strategic bombing - a methodology of defeating the enemy by limiting its economic potential to produce thereby negatively impacting the public morale of the enemy.