Volunteers and residents have shared their delight after a in Lincolnshire. For almost a decade, a group of trustees and supporters have been working hard to bring the 29m high monument to remember the Bomber Command crews to .
The Bomber County Gateway Trust came up with the idea in 2017 and then launched the project in 2018. A ground-breaking ceremony was held that May with the last surviving member of the 617 Squadron, Johnny Johnson and ten other veterans.
Chairman of the trust, Charlie White, said: "We haven't done it for our own glory or anything like that, it's because we wanted to put something there for the county of Lincolnshire and a thanks to the RAF and the over 55,000 that never came back after serving in Bomber Command in World War Two."
The local farmer says it is "incre