TRIBUTE TO GALLANT AIRMEN
(British Official Wireless.l RUGBY, June 21. “These lads faced more. I think—and faced it successfully—than any similar number of young men from this country have ever been called upon to face before,” said Air Chief Marshal Harris, Chief of Bomber Command, of the young men in his command, when siwaking at the prize distribution of his old school, All Hallows, Rousdon, Devon. 1 Air Chief Marshal Harris said he had received high honours, but those honours were earned by the young men who manned the bombers. More than 100,000 had passed through Bomber Command and more than 47,000 had been killed. Catastrophic casualties had been suffered by the nation’s youth in the last war, and to have won this war at the same expense would have been almost as disastrous as defeat. They had sent our champions to take the “edge” off the enemy and they had done that well.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 228, 23 June 1945, Page 7
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154TRIBUTE TO GALLANT AIRMEN Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 228, 23 June 1945, Page 7
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