>In his BBC TV series The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr last night >referred to ACM Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris with the alternative moniker >‘Butcher’. I’d always thought the nickname coined for him by his men in >Bomber Command was actually ‘Butch’ ? which, in the 1940s, didn’t have >the connotations it has today, but simply meant vigorous or forceful.
>So, is the pejorative ‘Butcher’ label wrong? I recall Bomber Command veterans >a few years back complaining about a Canadian TV documentary that had played on >it to discredit Harris and the RAF bombing campaign: they insisted he had simply >been known to them, respectfully, as ‘Butch’. ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ >Can any ex-Bomber Command folks confirm the facts?
>The entire series looked at recent British history through the prism of the anti-empire, left-biased >"liberal" media person. >God help us if it's that viewpoint which >the next generation learns its history from.