I fully support Dr Laljee's letter (We must not forget those who gave all, October 9) about the proposal to obscure the entrance to the Yorkshire Air Museum with more flat-roofed monstrosities.
However, I would point out that the total fatal casualties in Bomber Command during the last war were 55,500, not 5,000, and the Americans also lost about 25,000.
Also, during the night of March 30-31, 1944, in an attack on Nuremburg, Bomber Command had more men killed than Fighter Command had in the entire Battle of Britain.
But at the end of the war no campaign medal was issued to the survivors.
And when the peerages for victorious generals were handed out, Harris, who had led Bomber Command from February 1942 to the end of the war, and had done more than any other wartime leader to bring about total victory. was ignored.
Mike Usherwood, Mendip Close, Huntington, York.
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