tbf despite what social media tries to push, it's normal to get your equipment destroyed and your men dead in war. unilateral war was just a meme that worked for a couple of years when the us was using last generation bombers against stone age goat herders for example see numbers for ww2 in the pacific > operational flying was perilous. chances of survival varied during a tour, depending on factors such as inexperience, fatigue, type of aircraft flown and target. the most dangerous were the first and last five trips. during the whole war, 51% of aircrew were killed on operations, 12% were killed or wounded in non-operational accidents and 13% became prisoners of war or evaders. only 24% survived the war unscathed.   -and-death-in-bomber-command
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