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Bomber Command's fight for memorial

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Sixty-five years ago tonight RAF bombers began a devastating raid against the eastern German city of Dresden in a controversial bomb campaign against the Nazis. Around 25,000 people died in the onslaught.

A campaign is under-way for a permanent memorial for the brave aircrews who constituted Britain's Second Front across Europe against Nazi Germany.

Reporter Andrew Hosken spoke to some of the men who survived the Dresden bombings.

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