WITH regard to the correspondence on Bomber Command, yes, we bombed German cities and maybe if we had had the luxury of precision bombing techniques and equipment available now, things may have been different.
But we should not forget the German mass bombing and dive bombing in the Spanish Civil War and in Europe and Russia.
There have always been civilian casualties in war, but many of these people would have been involved in the war effort in some way, either directly or indirectly.
War is terrible but let’s not insult the brave men who risked their lives on a daily basis.
It is a continuing insult to those brave men that there is no day of commemoration or memorial to those of Bomber Command who did not return, which is why the Halifax at Yorkshire Air Museum and the museum itself is so important, and of which I am pleased to be a small part.
Harry Welch, Osbaldwick, York.
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