I wholeheartedly agree with the view that bomber command's sacrifice and efforts should not be demeaned by pink coloured hindsight but I have a question regarding Churchill and "The Few".
I've always taken this to be a reference to the BoB fighter pilots but this thread has led me to look at the speech in more detail. It seems to me that he was referring to bomber command in at least equal measure, arguably more so than fighter command.
Has my understanding of "The Few" been wrong for the past 39 years or has history somehow distorted the meaning of the speech. I reproduce the relevant paragraph here to save anyone the googling effort. (Apologies if this is seen as drift)
"The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. All hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day; but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war-making structure of the Nazi power. On no part of the Royal Air Force does the weight of the war fall more heavily than on the daylight bombers, who will play an invaluable part in the case of invasion and whose unflinching zeal it has been necessary in the meanwhile on numerous occasions to restrain."
Edit: 39 years is time served by the way and not, unfortunately, my age.