For those interested in the history of Bomber Command: in 1941 the British Air Ministry published
'Bomber Command', a booklet intended to describe to the public the bomber offensive of the Royal Air Force against targets in Germany and the Occupied Territories. As would be expected, it overstates the effectiveness of the campaign and understates the deficiencies in the organisation and execution of bombing missions. But less expectedly, it does not shy away from recording failures and losses of aircraft and crews. What is noticeable is the contrast between the generally rudimentary nature of the bomber offensive during the first two years of the Second World War and the devastating city-obliterating raids launched by the Allied air forces later in the conflict.