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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Mark Field (Conservative), on Tuesday, 2 March 2010, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 47 members in total.


BOMBER COMMAND MEMORIAL

That this House salutes the men of RAF Bomber Command, recalling that 55,573 of their number gave their lives in the Second World War; and supports the campaign by the Bomber Command Association for the erection of a memorial in an appropriate place in Green Park, London, to pay a long-overdue tribute to the bravery of these fine men of whom their Commander, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, wrote `There is no parallel in warfare to such courage and determination in the face of danger over so prolonged a period ...such devotion must never be forgotten' and of whom Churchill said in 1940 `The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers are our means of victory'.


Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
979 
Session
2009-10
Other sponsors
Gerald Howarth
James Gray
Andrew Pelling
Bob Russell
David Simpson
Subjects
Aviation Military operations
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk