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.
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.