UM:-
Many commented that it was good to have a lasting memorial up in Lincolnshire as that was where they flew from, not London.
But a great many of them did not fly out of Lincolnshire. Are we to have a separate memorial centre in each bomber county?
The whole essence of the RAF Bicester project was to avoid any such partisan and parochial territorial problems by having a Bomber Command Heritage Centre on neutral ground (ie Oxfordshire), easily accessible from all directions and on the very periphery of the town, at a perfectly preserved pre-war and wartime unpaved airfield that housed a Bomber OTU where they formed into the crews (of their own accord on the hangar floor) in which they would live or die.
It wasn't to be of course and I think a great opportunity was lost. I haven't any objections to the form of the IBCC, I do however have some reservations about its location.