SECOND WORLD WAR BOMBER COMMAND
SEAN FEAST REVEALS THE TRAGIC FATE OF THREE RAF BOMBER COMMAND AIRCREW AND THE POSSIBLE GRAVE OF A FOURTH MAN, WHO WENT MISSING AFTER THE LAST MAIN FORCE RAID ON ESSEN IN DECEMBER 1944.
Sgt William ‘Billy’Horlor. (ALL IMAGES VIA AUTHOR UNLESS NOTED)
Fg Off Leon Milner of 460 Squadron. He was one of three men murdered on 13 December.
Avro Lancaster Is from 460 Squadron - Fg Off Leon Milner’s unit - at their Binbrook home, Lincolnshire, 1943. (ANDREW THOMAS)
When the final roll of the dead was taken at the end of World War Two, 57,861 men of Bomber Command had been killed in action. The vast majority had been victims of flak or nightfighters and a smaller number through collisions, technical failures or sheer bad luck, such as ‘friendly fire’or being struck by bombs and incendiaries from above.
