To be honest the whole of the Second World War was a costly brutal affair, but it and the Strategic Bombing campaign were a necessity. My family never recovered from losing members in the Blitz or from losing my Great Uncle on ops with Bomber Command. I went to Keil last December to his grave on the 70th anniversary of his and his crews death. I met one of the local cemetery keepers, who told me that local children were compiling information on the young airmen there, to learn more about them and how they had fought to defeat Hitler. The cemetery houses a good number of Bomber Command dead. What they did at the time was to carry out the official policy of the British Government, they were not lucky enough to be able to use hindsight and decide whether it was a costly and brutal affair. Although I would guess they knew it was definitely brutal.
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