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[HolyCount]

Bit of background and some nice artwork:

http://www.aviationartprints.com/101_squadron.htm

Dad is Taff Arndell, mentioned there.

[Tonka.]

I too agree that a huge central memorial should be built to honour the people who gave their lives for us.

The one in Lincoln is well out of the way and very provincially placed but it is suitable for the historical connections here 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Indeed Tonka, and I just hope enough people vote for that with their cash for this great cause, so:

Everyone, please donate to this great cause :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/rafbombercommand/


Thank you! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Ive had an idea.

Donate whatever pot of cash to one of two things...
1-The production company thats making (or not, as things seem to have ground to a halt, probably money) the new Dambusters film, and let is serve as a permanent memorial to all those brave men of whom we are literally not worthy. With all its emotion, explosions, heartache and action it will tell the tale to a generation far better than any statue/monument ever could.
2-The RAF. Keep this amazing force flying as it is, let today's brave men and women stand proud as a memorial to all those that have gone before, and not the underfunded, depleted-in-strength organisation that the Con-Dem's are planning.

We're in a week where at least 450million if being lobbed over to Brussels in pointless payrises... 2 million doesnt seem much money to say 'ta' to 55,000 people that never got half the glamour the 'fighter boys' did, somehow.

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EDIT: However, this wont happen, so Im with LizzieZoom...just give them a donation! 

[Terbs]

Very slightly off topic...but I personally think its a bit of an insult >:
RAF High Wycombe was, as you probably know, RAF Bomber Command from 1936 until 1968, when it was renamed Strike Command (now Air Command).
So why do we now have a Spitfire and a Hurricane as Gate Guards :-?
They are only mock ups so why not a Lanc?

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Very slightly off topic...but I personally think its a bit of an insult >:
RAF High Wycombe was, as you probably know, RAF Bomber Command from 1936 until 1968, when it was renamed Strike Command (now Air Command).
So why do we now have a Spitfire and a Hurricane as Gate Guards :-?
They are only mock ups so why not a Lanc?

A very good question Terbert!!

It probably is though due to the 'embarrassment' WRONGLY shown by successive governments since the war over the role of Bomber Command that still is very controversial