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Petition update, 15 June 2007

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Crewing an RAF heavy bomber was the second most dangerous role performed by servicemen on any side during the Second World War. At the end of the war the contraversial 'area bombing' policy (which was adopted in 1942 and heavily supported by the Prime Minister and the Government of the day) became something of an embarrassment to the powers that be once its full effectiveness had become known, and the authorities turned their backs on those who had implemented it. To this date, the bomber offensive against Germany is the only recognised campaign never to have been marked by the issue of a medal to those who fought it - men (and women) who were left to feel as though their country was ashamed of them. Many of the surviving veterans are now approaching the ends of their lives, and this petition is to request that their courage and sacrifice be belatedly recognised by the institution of a Bomber Command Campaign medal.

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• Joyce N.Wootton
• Lewis James Kidd (RAF retired)
• Neil Hutchinson
• Roger P. Ball
• victor walton
• David Hines-Randle
• Yvette Sladen-Dean
• Robert Hill
• Raymond Ball
• glenys newby
• Neil Cannon
• Christopher Upton
• Rhonda Sherlock
• maureen carter
• F/O lionel A.F.Hughes
• K.Oakes
• Paul Spanswick
• Mark Donnelly
• jayne ockerby-cattell
• Graham Atkinson
• john victor cattell
• Paul Trickett
• Annemarie Kendall
• Chumley Robert Prime
• Fg Off C A Davies
• Duncan Adam
• David Whitham
• Graham Gibson
• Richard Pierson
• Hilary Wilson
• Kenneth Matthews
• Thomas Roberts
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• Rodney Holloway
• dan mcmath
• David Cooke
• Adrian Northover
• G.R.Coleman
• Wayne Welford
• FTM Doyle
• Audrey Noel Mortlock
• D M Bell
• Madeleine De Concilio
• Keith Primrose
• David Julian Germain
• Patricia Richards
• COLIN DALTON
• LEE THOMPSON
• martin nichols
• stuart hawkshaw
• Paul Barstow
• Malcolm S Sykes
• Eric Halsall
• Lesley Edwards
• Tom Kendall
• christopher wicks
• JONATHAN MARR
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• debra white
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• stuart parker
• Thomas Hartin
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• KIERON RIDEHALGH
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• helen parker-drabble
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• Vicki Swann
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• Susan Wood
• Nigel Timothy Parsons
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• Steven Logan
• V Ruiz
• JL Ruiz
• Richard Alcock
• Adolf Hitler
• Paul Cowper
• Dacre Watson
• Allan Gray
• David A Hughes
• delwin.nienhuis
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• Frederick Keens OBE
• Herbert Davy
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• DOREEN PETTIFER
• David R Chatfield
• Adam Crandon
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• Lloyd Munn
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