MAY I suggest Mr Westmorland (Letters, February 20) takes the trouble to read up on Bomber Command in the last war. I would suggest Dresden by Frederick Taylor and Bomber Harris by Henry Probert.

Then, perhaps, he might learn some respect for the 55,573 aircrew of Bomber Command who died in the last war (including 56 who did not return from Dresden).

Also he might like to climb into a 50-year-old aircraft manned by a crew of youngsters and fly (nearly all the way in cloud) almost to the eastern frontier of Germany and back.

M C Usherwood, Mendip Close, Huntington, York.