Sixty years late, a wrong is righted as bomber heroes will be given a fitting memorial
Night after night they climbed into their cramped and freezing aircraft to strike at Germany's cities and factories.
And each time they flew, the odds of them surviving the night-fighters and flak grew longer and longer.
Yet the sacrifice and seemingly inexhaustible bravery of the young men of Bomber Command has gone almost unrecognised for 60 years.
Even Churchill snubbed them, though they faced some of the worst losses of any branch of the British military.
However, it emerged that the heroes of Bomber Command are at last to be recognised with their own memorial.
Campaigners have won the struggle to raise funds for a £2million memorial in Regent's Park to honour the 55,000 who lost their lives during the war.
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And each time they flew, the odds of them surviving the night-fighters and flak grew longer and longer.
Yet the sacrifice and seemingly inexhaustible bravery of the young men of Bomber Command has gone almost unrecognised for 60 years.
Even Churchill snubbed them, though they faced some of the worst losses of any branch of the British military.
However, it emerged that the heroes of Bomber Command are at last to be recognised with their own memorial.
Campaigners have won the struggle to raise funds for a £2million memorial in Regent's Park to honour the 55,000 who lost their lives during the war.