Last night, a clip about this memorial came up on my facebook feed. A sobering reminder
of what was lost.
The "Counting the Cost" memorial, located at the American Air Museum in Duxford, England, is a 52-panel glass sculpture commemorating over 7,000 US aircraft lost during WWII operations from UK bases. The etched panels line the entrance ramp, visually representing the immense scale of losses with silhouettes of bombers and fighters.
Location: Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford, near Cambridge, UK.
Significance: Honors over 30,000 US airmen who died while flying from UK bases during World War II.
Design: The 52 glass panels are divided into two segments (43 on the left, 9 on the right) and feature engraved silhouettes of aircraft, acting as a "missing in action" memorial.
Details: The panels include engravings representing the USAAF 8th Air Force (6,346 lost) and 9th Air Force (692 lost).
I have been there, and it is an impressive memorial. More impressive in person.
ReplyDeleteThe cost of war is seldom remembered properly.
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It was 20 years between "The GREAT WAR" aka WW1 and start of WW2. So many people REMEMBERED the cost that FDR had to create a "They ATTACKED US" to get support for the war effort in Europe.
Today it seems our "Greatest Ally Ever" (spit) can simply buy and extort America into fighting wars for them.
One of my uncles was shot down in 1943 on a mission with the 8th Air Force, 95th Bomb Group. Although wounded, he manged to get out of the aircraft and spent the remainder of the war as a guest of the Lutwaffe.
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And now they won't let us use DG in our fight to preserve civilization.
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