HISTORICAL NOTE Max Hasting’s in his book “Bomber Command” devotes a whole chapter to “82 Squadron, Norfolk, 1940-41”. I set out some excerpts below: “Much has been said and written about Fighter Command in 1940. Yet the sacrifice of 2 Group Bomber Command was also the stuff of which legends are made. It was their tragedy that few of them were left to tell of it.” “One pilot was remembered as “Ten Minute” Jenkins, because he came to the squadron, took off on his first operation, and was dead within ten minutes of crossing the Belgian coast”. “The next day Churchill drafted a message to the crews: “The devotion of the attacks on Rotterdam and other objectives are beyond all praise. The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava is eclipsed in brightness by these almost daily deeds of fame.” From the pen of a man with the Prime Minister’s profound sense of history, it could have been no accident that he compared 2 Group’s achievements with another futile British sacrifice.”