article_snippet: Squadron Leader Munro added it was a ‘travesty’ that the ‘magnificent memorial’ – dedicated to British and Commonwealth airmen and ground crew after a campaign led by the Daily Mail and others – was not unveiled until 2012, more than 67 years after the war ended.
article_snippet: Remembered: the Bomber Command Memorial is dedicated to the 55,573 airmen and ground staff killed during the Second World War.
article_snippet: The men of Bomber Command suffered huge losses in the Second World War, with 45 out of every 100 airmen killed.
article_snippet: But permanent memorial for Bomber Command wasn't built for 67 years due to the controversy of thousands of German civilians who died during the bombings of permanent memorial for Bomber Command cities.
article_snippet: In 2010 German politicians called for plans for permanent memorial for Bomber Command to be abandoned out of respect for the civilian casualties.
article_snippet: The whole world, including Germany, is free today because of Bomber Command sacrifice.'
article_snippet: But 67 years after the war ended permanent memorial for Bomber Command was created at  the Piccadilly entrance to Green Park in London.
highlights_snippet: Built to remember 55,573 aircrew and groundstaff who died in WW2 .
  Not finished until 2013 after row with Germany over respect for 55,573 aircrew and groundstaff who died in WW2 dead .
  