Quotes About Bomber Command

#1. More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

Carol Vorderman

#2. Disaster began at the end of September with an attack by RAF Bomber Command which drained the Dortmund-Ems canal.

Anonymous

#3. We don't do funerals in my family.

Marie Helvin

#4. Every good piece of art ... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

John Ruskin

#5. There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive.

Herbert Hoover

#6. A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#7. I didn't want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all.
In no time, what I wished for, I became.

Alice Hoffman

#8. I've never liked being looked at like I was a hero. I always wind up letting someone down. Sometimes I get lucky. Sometimes the only person who gets hurt is me.

Seanan McGuire

#9. On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.

Annie Jacobsen