[Non-Sequitur]

Anyone who wants a perspective on what the air campaign cost Great Britain need only look at the photo below. It's a picture of Wing Commander Guy Gibson and his crew just before his 'dambuster' raid in 1943. They were a picked crew and were broken up shortly after the mission and sent to other squadrons. Every single one of them was killed in action.

[Guenevere]

Before I read your caption, I glanced at the picture and wondered how many of them ‘came home’....

[Flag_This]

"Every single one of them was killed in action."

I watched a program and they interviewed an RAF vet (I can't recall whether he was a bomber pilot or a bomber crewman) but he arrived, as a replacement, at his new base while the unit were on a mission. None of them came back.