Bomber command memorial

Does anyone know what the memorial is made from? The detail is just amazing, I googled my question but couldn't find any info on the making of it.

Val

 

Here you go.....http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...ibsbLf0UGWe3V7yoA&sig2=waaeveMWueG-4PFcFJ17cQ

 

They are made out of bronze but the roof is made from aliminuim reclaimed from a halifax bomber shot down over belgium in 1944.

 

Still no newspaper articles, television programmes or military services for the tens of thousands of groundstaff who worked to keep these aircraft flying. Carrying out after flight, turn round and before flight servicings nothing about robbing crashed aircraft of parts to keep others flying, nothing about what ingenuity they used to repair skin and structural damage using what was to hand, usually under a rain of bombs and bullets.

Nothing about the armourers, the electricians, the fairies, the riggers, the m.t. driver refuelers stores persons, those working in the exchanges. I did see someone pulling the chocks away from a main wheel, and a chap feeding a roll of shells into a storage box, but those must have slipped through the censors.

Cheers, Tony.

 

Im not trying to take anything from those people that had those jobs because they all played an important role, and all deserve to be recognised, but i think in comparison with the flight crews of the fighter and bomber planes their sacrifice was much less costly.

 

My Mother worked on Bomber stations during the last three years of the war.
She is very happy that at last the bombers have been recognised.