PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Bomber Command Memorial (Merged)
View Single Post
Old 18th Oct 2008, 12:55
  #273 (permalink)  
Chugalug2
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: West Sussex
Age: 82
Posts: 4,765
Received 236 Likes on 72 Posts
Is this the story Hugh?:
Sixty years late, a wrong is righted as bomber heroes will be given a fitting memorial | Mail Online
Great news indeed, and as to the names, yes of course they must be featured, but on a London Memorial it was always a tall order given that we are talking of >55,500 names. All the more reason then for a second larger memorial, a truly national one as against yet another in the capital, that is more central, accessible, and at a perfectly preserved Bomber Command station in its original form. RAF Bicester meets that description and is the location chosen by Bomber Command Heritage seeking to tell the story of the Bombing Offensive there and of the terrible cost paid to ensure victory. I cannot think of a more fitting location for a National Bomber Command Memorial than that of an ex Bomber Command OTU where so many of the crews formed up and trained only to perish together doing their dangerous work, within only a few months for many. A place of Remembrance indeed.
Chugalug2 is offline