Bomber Medal

I don’t necessarily disagree, but a couple of points.

There were lots of other groups that could make a case, what about the anti-shipping strikes by Coastal Command aircraft early in the war for example? What was their rate of attrition? What about the army who fought in France and Norway in 1940?

Bomber Command men may well be entitled to a unique medal, but I don’t necessarily think they were uniquely deprived of a medal at the war’s end, and as that is fast becoming the established view, I think the point is worth being made.

I take your point, particularly in regard to the Strike Wings (one of which operated from a base near where I work). But I still think that, given the sheer scale of the bomber offensive, the huge resources ploughed into it, the equally huge numbers of people involved, and, not least, the fact that Bomber Command lost over 56,000 people. Given all these facts a specific BC medal FOR those aircrew should have been awarded. God knows, they earned it.
Let it also be remembered that it was only due to political cowardice that such recognition was not forthcoming.
Contrast such pusillanimity against the exploits and sacrifice of the heroes they slighted.