This article traces the ways in which RAF Bomber Command has been memorialized in the UK since the 1940s, focusing on those who have organized memorials and associated commemorations. Distinct phases can be identified. Until the 1970s, the Command was accorded a prominent role in official memorial and ceremonial activities. Veterans’ activities reflected this acknowledgement. From the 1980s, in the face of debates about the morality of area bombing of German cities, however, veterans’ organizations and families began to articulate the view that Bomber Command’s wartime contribution had been overlooked. In consequence, they embarked upon activities to revise official memory. This included distinctive forms of memorial activity on the part of veterans and the postmemory generation, including the widespread appearance of ‘small memorials’ and, in the twenty-first century, two large-scale memorial sites, in London and in Lincoln.

本文追溯了自 20 世纪 40 年代以来英国纪念英国皇家空军轰炸机司令部的方式，重点关注那些组织纪念活动和相关纪念活动的人。可以识别不同的阶段。直到 20 世纪 70 年代，指挥部在官方纪念和仪式活动中发挥着重要作用。退伍军人的活动反映了这种认识。然而，从 20 世纪 80 年代开始，面对有关对德国城市进行区域轰炸是否道德的争论，退伍军人组织和家属开始明确表示，轰炸机司令部在战时的贡献被忽视了。结果，他们开始了修改官方记忆的活动。这包括退伍军人和后记忆一代独特的纪念活动形式，包括广泛出现的“小型纪念馆”，