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Old 4th Oct 2022, 16:48
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stevef
 
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I remember reading a WW2 bomber crew member's autobiography in the 1970s and he was very bitter about the shabby treatment the NCO aircrew were given once the fighting was over. Many men, some with a tour behind them, were put on menial duties and subjected to the whims of supervising disciplinary and admin staff. No campaign medal was struck for the crews, even Churchill barely mentioned Bomber Command's supreme efforts in his VE Day speech and it took nearly 70 years for a memorial to be erected to the 55,000 airmen lost. Shameful.
I wish I could remember the book's title.
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