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Old 14th Feb 2015, 19:05
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Why no mention of the Hamburg raid in the summer of 1943 when more people were killed?

Why no mention of the USAAF who also attacked Dresden during the day?

Personally as an "After the War" kid I am just very grateful for the sacrifice of the young men of RAF Bomber Command in securing my future, a fact I shall commemorate later next month when I lay a wreath at the site of RAF Snaith in East Yorkshire on the 71st Anniversary of the Nuremburg Raid when RAF Bomber Command lost 108 heavy bombers in one night, each aircraft carried 7 young men who were the flower of the youth of Britain and her Commonwealth.

They truly were "The Greatest Generation" and I for one am very grateful for their passing.
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