It's certainly food-for-thought as I sit, slouched in front of an office TV, almost three-quarters-of-a-century later. I'm flying over it, right now, impressed at the incredibly detailed tapestry of fields and pockets of forest that blanket the ground. My great uncle was a pilot in 463 Squadron until, at 21 years old, he and his crew were killed in action during a raid on the Dortmund-Ems Canal in November 1944. In proportion to its size, 463 Squadron sustained the highest loss rate of any of the Australian bomber squadrons. 463 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force, which flew heavy bombers out of England as part of the RAF's Bomber Command during WWII. That manmade channel is the Dortmund-Ems Canal and I know of someone who was here, 67 years ago, in the air above it.
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