I reach for my gun !

I don’t think that I can be the only one who gets more than a bit tetchy and irritable when I read: “Air attcks on Germany, Bomber Command, Lancaster and controversial” all in the same sentence.

My current copy of Flypast contains this abomination as part of a preview of an article to be published in next months issue. I am aware that there is a lobby of apologists, perhaps primarily on the political left, who will always – on this subject – preach ‘shock, horror’ come hell or high water.

Personally, I do not care about the ‘hand wringers’. The fact that Bomber Command laid Nazi Germany waste from end to end was the only course of action open to the British for much of the duration of the war and it was a correct action. The fact that it was at all necessary can be laid directly at the door of a foul and evil regime. 55,000 souls bear witness. I hope that the Flypast article won’t in any way impugn their memory.