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To: Flag_This

I read somewhere where 60% of all RAF Bomber Command crewmen were killed, wounded, or wound up as a POWs over the course of the war. The highest casualty rate of any allied command of the war.


56 posted on 07/19/2010 8:33:09 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
"I read somewhere where 60% of all RAF Bomber Command crewmen were killed, wounded, or wound up as a POWs over the course of the war."

And that was while they were primarily flying night missions. No wonder they thought we were crazy to try unescorted daylight missions.

60 posted on 07/19/2010 8:59:24 AM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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