Avro Lancaster - Bomber Command - Dark Side of the Moon
Avro Lancaster - Bomber Command - Dark Side of the Moon.
In memorium of Bomber Command and the men who flew.
Bomber Command
In total 364,514 operational sorties were flown,
1,030,500 tons of bombs were dropped,8,325
aircraft lost in action. Bomber Command crews
also suffered a high casualty rate: 55,573 were
killed out of a total of 125,000 aircrew, a 44.4%
death rate. A further 8,403 men were wounded
in action, and 9,838 became prisoners of war.
Only 24% of the flight crews came home unscathed.
The worst attrition rate of any combat troops in
British Military History.