I have a copy of an Observer/Navigator/Bomb Aimer log book detailing Alan Dowden's time in 4 Group on Whitleys and Halifxes. It is full of one liners about the ops carried out. He went from being an LAC in 1941 to W/C OC 10 Sqn by the end of the war. The sqn was then converted to Dakotas and sent to India. I have often wondered how those ex Bomber Command crews must have felt about this. I think that I would have not been very happy having done my 'bit in Bomber Command.