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Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford
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Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford
Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford
,
&
Bar
,
MC
(21 May 1893 – 22 April 1971) was a senior
Royal Air Force
officer. In the
First World War
he was a pilot, then a flight commander and then a squadron commander flying light bombers on the
Western Front
. In the early stages of the
Second World War
he was commander-in-chief of
Bomber Command
in which role he advocated strategic
area bombing
against German industrial areas, the same sort of targets that the
Luftwaffe
was already targeting in the United Kingdom. He was then
Chief of the Air Staff
during the rest of the War and in that role he fended off an attempt by the
Royal Navy
to take over
RAF Coastal Command
as well as an attempt by the
British Army
to establish their own Army Air Arm. He was also an advocate of the need for a renewed
strategic bombing
offensive. In retirement Portal was chairman of
British Aluminium
and unsuccessfully fought in the "Aluminium War" against a hostile takeover bid by
Sir Ivan Stedeford
's
Tube Investments
; he then became chairman of the
British Aircraft Corporation
.
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