But he had witnessed the destruction caused by the Luftwaffe in London during the blitz, followed by British bombers retaliating against Dresden and other German targets and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American planes. With foresight about where the 20th century was heading, Churchill himself had learned to pilot a plane before World War I, had recognized the need to build up the Royal Air Force before World War II and proudly wore the uniform of an air commodore. "On the whole I think I would rather have lived through our lot of troubles than any of the others," Prime Minister Winston Churchill wrote in 1953 to Lord Beaverbrook, the newspaper publisher, "though I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly." Churchill A Life By Martin Gilbert Illustrated.
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