"Counting the Cost"

[Subdeacon Joe]

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/8393

 

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/counting-the-cost-a-memorial-sculpture-for-the-american-air-museum-duxford-299374

A memorial sculpture in glass which lines the route to the entrance of the American Air Museum, Duxford. The sculpture comprises 52 panels engraved with the outlines of aircraft, one for each plane missing in action in operations flown by American air forces from Britain during the Second World War. Depicted are 7,031 aircraft, displayed by Air Force groups or group. The actual scale of the aircraft in the sculpture is 1:240.

 

https://museumsandheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Optimised_IWM_SITE_DUX_001557_tif.jpg

 

 

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

And that just those flown from Britain