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Point taken, but the overall Bomber Command casualties in the offensive on Germany were more or less the same as those incurred on the first day of the Somme.
The bomber crews went 'over the top' night after night, which is not to belittle the soldiers on the Somme, but to point up the enormous, day after day, courage of those aircrews.
Whenever we pass a war memorial or a Tomb of the Unknown Warrior it is decent to pause a while, to think, and to be thankful.