The numbers killed are startling. Over 55,000 RAF Aircrew killed in Bomber Command. This compares with Officer losses in the Great War of 38,000, a war that is widely considered to have wiped out a generation of Britain's finest. I have read that 60,000 Britons were killed in German raids, but numbers of German civilians killed were very much higher. The city of Hamburg alone lost 118,000 this compares to losses of 40,000 in the Great War. It is interesting that the RAF chooses to celebrate the Battle of Britain but little is remembered officially about the contribution of the Bomber Command. Maybe the memory of Dresden is still too raw for many people. What is beyond doubt is the bravery of the crews; they simply did not have the technology to deliver their weaponry accurately enough to avoid civilians. I for one do not believe in targetting civilians per se, but as has been said the Germans decided to bomb our cities first.