Loss of Lives in the Air War                              See Danish version           Updated:  25 OCT 2009

On the base of the statue of Sir Arthur Harris more than 55,000 men from Bomber Command who lost their lives are mentioned in the inscription.
The war 1939-45 was really a World War. Allied forces fought against the Germans, supported by the Americans. More than a British/German showdown!

Some of the main sections of the Royal Air Force: Bomber Command, Fighter Command, Coastal Command and Transport Command.
Most of the airmen mentioned in Allied Airmen - Allierede flyvere 1939-45 DK are from Bomber Command and many are from United States Army Air Force.

Bomber Command losses September 1939 - May 1945: 47,268 men killed on operations. Another 8,303 killed in flying or training accidents, total
55,571. Another 1,570 groundcrew and WAAFs lost their lives from other causes. (Patrick Bishop: Bomber Boys, p. 389)

55,573 aircrew from Bomber Command were killed. A further 9,784 were shot down and taken prisoner. Source: Max Hastings: Bomber Command
55,358 says RAF Bomber Command and the 8^th & 9^th US Army Air Forces’ Casualties and Losses in World War II section 6.
38,305 Royal Air Force -                     See Peter Andrew Kleboe
  9,887 Royal Canadian Air Force  -     See Joseph Melvin Hicks
  4,034 Royal Australian Air Force -     See Carl Richard Kelaher
  1,674 Royal New Zealand Air Force - See John Matthew Biggar
     924 Polish Air Force - See The Poles on the Front Lines with The combat went on. See Jan Madracki.
     473 Other allied Air Forces (e.g. French, Czech etc.) - and some Norwegians, see Herman Hirsch Becker.
       27 South African Air Force   Wikipedia-links about all of the Air Forces and links from www.airmen.dk to individual airmen. This is about people.
       34 Other Dominions                    

Of the volunteers who flew almost 60 % were killed. More details in Bomber Command´s Losses at The Nanton Lancaster Society Air Museum in Canada:
For any given 100 aircrew in Bomber Command, 1939-1945, the statistical breakdown was:
Killed on operations               51
Killed in crashes in England     9
Seriously injured                     3
Prisoners of War                   12    See German POW-Camps.
Evaded capture                       1
Survived unharmed                24

Alone from 8 & 9 AAF, operating from bases in Great Britain, the United States Army Air Force lost from the 54,997 men of which 19,876 are classified
as died and 35,121 as "Missing, Interned and Captured".
The estimate of the total number of died (i.e.killed) and missing (now presumed killed) on these operations becomes about 37,000.
Source: RAF Bomber Command and the 8^th & 9^th US Army Air Forces’ Casualties and Losses in World War II section 24.
See Happy Ending and Lester Schrenk from the USAAF for more details.