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Old 6th Aug 2014, 00:09
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Danny42C
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Training Casualties.

ShotOne,

I believe (rough figures) that of the 55,000 Bomber Command crews killed in WW2, some 8,000 were in training.

This was considered acceptable (and indeed as inevitable) at the time.