[tcolvin]

Thanks, SimonE.
The difference between your 14,000 BC aircrew and my 19,000 probably reflects the number in training, mostly in Canada, and not yet part of BC.

And thanks, alieneyes1 for providing the correct date for Nightbombers as being end 1944. The crews were far more relaxed than they would have been a year earlier, since the Luftwaffe had by then been destroyed. But even with no aerial opposition, as has been pointed out on another thread, BC never went back to Berlin with the heavies. Its defeat in 1943 had acted as effective aversion therapy. I wonder then why the chosen subject of Nightbombers was Berlin rather than an actual target. It's disappointing to find the film is not a real but still a fictional depiction reminiscent of the downright untruthful "Target For Tonight". The RAF has always had problems telling the truth even to itself in an internal film for its eyes only.
Tony