Light a candle for the bomber crews that were lost..
maybe two or three..
Those brave crews need to remembered, along with the other upcoming anniversary..9 March, 1945..firebombing of Tokyo, 80-100,00 Jap casualties..worst casualties in a single raid in history..all I care to remember are the gallant bomber crews.
Yes!! Remember the allied bombers who died in this vicious war.
Indeed...RAF bomber command lost 55,000 crew members during World War II, out of 125,000 who served. Forty-four percent were killed in action; more than 10% wound up as POWs. Overall, a bomber command crew member had lower survival odds than an infantry officer in World War I.
The “villianization” of bomber command over the past 70 years is nothing short of shameful. I was glad that Queen Elizabeth was present when they finally got around to dedicating the RAF Bomber Command memorial, even if a lot of other British dignitaries found convenient reasons to be absent.