"Robert Wright, in his biography of Dowding, writes: "When the question was raised [after the war] about the curious distortion of the decisions reached about the fighters that is found recorded by Churchill in his own account of those times, Dowding commented: 'You couldn't very well expect him to admit that he came within a hair's breadth of wrecking Fighter Command before the Battle of Britain ever started.'""
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