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Im stephen sackur. We are slowly but inevitably losing the generation of men who fought in and survived the last world war. And what we are left with are monuments to courage and to loss like this one in Central London which is dedicated to the 55,000 young men who lost their lives serving in britains Bomber Command. My guest today is 96 year old George Johnny johnson, the last remaining british survivor of one of the most extraordinary and most famous Aerial Missions of world war ii, the dambusters raid. It was costly and it wasnt entirely successful so why has it become such a part of Britai...

Im stephen sackur. We are slowly but inevitably losing the generation of men who fought in and survived the last world war. And what we are left with are monuments to courage and to loss like this one in Central London which is dedicated to the 55,000 young men who lost their lives serving in britains Bomber Command. My guest today is 96 year old George Johnny johnson, the last remaining british survivor of one of the most extraordinary and most famous Aerial Missions of world war ii, the dambusters raid. It was costly and it wasnt entirely successful so why has it become such a part of Britai...

We are slowly but inevitably losing the generation of men who fought in and survived the last world war. And what we are left with are monuments to courage and to loss like this one in Central London which is dedicated to the 55,000 young men who lost their lives serving in britains Bomber Command. My guest today is 96 year old George Johnny johnson, the last remaining british survivor of one of the most extraordinary and most famous Aerial Missions of world war ii, the dambusters raid. It was costly and it wasnt entirely successful so why has it become such a part of Britains National folklor...

Oh. This is the story of a world shattered by bombs a world where the very sky became a threat where terror descended upon cities and transformed people into hunted prey. In one night three hundred fifty thousand homes were destroyed the working class neighborhood of hama brooke was totally demolished all told there were forty two thousand six hundred deaths in what was known as operation gomorrah. An eyewitness noted. I saw roofs lift off into the sky bodies caught fire like tinder the asphalt was boiling are so two women trapped in the top they looked like flies stuck in the burning wax of a...

With. Oh. This is the story of a world shattered by bombs a world where the very sky became a threat. Where terror descended upon cities and transformed people into hunted price. Cut those who controlled the skies fell to omnipotent. World war two saw the birth of the hideous idea that victory could be achieved more quickly by bombing civilian populations. Against a backdrop of total war hatred and megalomania immense sums of money and creativity was pumped into promoting this concept. It was a time of senseless massacres and the immolation and destruction of countless cities and towns. Millio...