Colour film Hugh Dowding?
 

I am sure that everybody knows this, but I don't. USNA RG 342 Memphis Belle outtakes (Reel 5). Lengthy sequence of visit by someone who looks amazingly like Hugh Dowding, intimate, chatty. Is this him? Entire reel c 20 mins long so give it a whirl.

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ChrisG

Re: Colour film Hugh Dowding?
 

From his age I would say that it was Hugh Trenchard.
Good piece of colour film, link for others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzE_8jDjQtQ&t=530s

Sean.

Re: Colour film Hugh Dowding?
 

Here is the scene where Trenchard is talking with the B-24 crew around 8:18 on the youtube video.


https://www.fold3.com/image/32018907
https://www.fold3.com/image/32018908


Label says Lord Trenchard inspects crew of Consolidated Liberator "Ball of Fire" .....
Crew members are (left to right) Captain Joseph S Tate, pilot ...... (goes on to list the crew).

Taken April, 1943 at 93rd Bomb Group. (Hardwick, Norfolk, England).

Note that Joseph Scranton Tate, Jr. , then a Lt Col, was killed in December, 1943.

https://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/136373

Re: Colour film Hugh Dowding?
 

Trenchard! Not a doubt. Thanks to the Still Pictures Branch! And thank you both. I am better informed, but as always, no wiser.
ChrisG