I spent Remembrance Day at the WWII RAF Bomber Command aerodrome at Wickenby in Lincolnshire and attended the Memorial Service there.
I flew there in a modern Cessna and later in the day when I got airborne to return home and looked down at Wickenby from 3000 feet and looked east to the North Sea, a familiar sight to any Bomber Command airman in Lincolnshire and I wondered how many of the 1080 young men killed on operations from Wickenby had looked down from the same vantage point and wondered whether they would ever see England again.