BOMBER COMMAND MEMORIAL

Early day motion 979, tabled 2 March 2010 by Mark Field (Conservative). Signed by 47 members.

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'.

Signatures by party: Labour 19, Liberal Democrat 12, Conservative 10, DUP 5, Independent 1.