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At noon today, HM The Queen will unveil a memorial dedicated to the aircrew of Bomber Command. In 1942, the then head of Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris said: '" The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a dozen other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."...