UK political parties support Bomber Command memorial

[Colin1]

Nice sculpture

 

[herman1rg]

This is great news

 

[Gnomey]

Great to hear.

 

[RabidAlien]

 

[Airframes]

Excellent, and about time too. No doubt there'll be some objections from a bunch of lilly-livered, carrot -eating, 2CV driving, tree-hugging lefties, but they can all P**s off!!

 

[pbfoot]

What I noticed and appreciated was the no mention of RAF as Bomber Command was a mix of Commonwealth and US crew

 

[Colin1]

What I noticed and appreciated was the no mention of RAF as Bomber Command was a mix of Commonwealth and US crew

Don't read too much into that
the piece was written by a journalist, not a historian

 

[pbfoot]

Don't read too much into that
the piece was written by a journalist, not a historian

well I hope they don't or if they decide to they shouild also mention the "colonials"

 

[timshatz]

Overdue. Those guys got screwed by the politics at the end of the war. A brutal and bloody campaing. In the end, they didn't even get a medal.