I help to run an Air Cadet course at RAF Linton-on-Ouse during the winter period.
The cadets are Senior Cadets who are between 17-23 and I take the opportunity to walk around the station with them, explaining the history of the wartime station and that they are walking in the footsteps of the Heroes of RAF Bomber Command.
They become acutely aware that the young airmen of Bomber Command were the same age as themselves when serving on operations, a fact which many of them find astonishing.
I would also add that there seems no difference between them and the young men and women who saved this country in the hour of its greatest peril.