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Old 13th Jan 2013, 11:54
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I remember after the Falklands War a chap I knew who had been a FE on Bomber Command remarking on the total British casualties (255 killed) that they could lose more than that in a night on a large raid.

Didn't make the Falklands casualties any less tragic, of course, but I sort of saw his point.
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