Talk:Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford

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Lord Mountbatten
" ... the youngest of the Chiefs of Staff until the arrival of Lord Mountbatten". Mountbatten was not a chief of staff during the Second World War. However he did become Supreme Allied Commander in South East Asia. Portal remained the youngest of the three service chiefs during the war.IXIA (talk) 07:52, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Sentence now removed. Dormskirk (talk) 19:21, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

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I have a doubt on
He argued for the new approach on the basis of the huge increase in the size of the bomber force, which would carry out not just precision bombing but also indiscriminate area bombing by night of all German cities with populations exceeding 100,000.

The context suggests that this is an inversion of

He argued for the new approach on the basis of the huge increase in the size of the bomber force, which would carry out not just indiscriminate area bombing by night of all German cities with populations exceeding 100,000 but also precision bombing. 151.29.55.235 (talk) 09:38, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

We have too many award cats
The number of categories is excessive. Most of these awards are not defining to him as an individual.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:41, 20 December 2023 (UTC)


 * True, but they are legitimate and I cannot think of a good policy reason to remove them. If we deleted them and an editor was doing research into recipients of the Order of Merit (for example) to see what particular profession received the most number of awards (for example), the population would be missing one of its highly decorated recipients. I am happy to be persuaded by other views. Dormskirk (talk) 18:02, 20 December 2023 (UTC)