Delta Disaster

摘要

Harry Broadhurst was a Hendon display pilot before 1939. In Fighter Command 'Broady was awarded a DSO and a DFC and a bar with both. He became the youngest Air Vice-Marshal when given command of that most individualistic of all flying organisations, the Desert Air Force. With the introduction of shiny four-engined jet bombers into the RAF, a new broom was needed to sweep away some of the 'mental cobwebs' in Bomber Command. As a former fighter man Sir Harry Broadhurst was seen as ideally suited to the job. In January 1956 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) Bomber Command, at the age of just 50.