I am a member of the Oxford Air Crew Association, the Thames Valley Bomber Command Association, the RAF Association and the Royal British Legion.

Fellow members of these associations will have noted the letter from Lionel Horner DFC, Insult to airmen (Oxford Mail, June 5).

Like him, I simply cannot believe that anyone in the publishing world would consider printing a comic called DFC.

I can only admire the manner in which Mr Horner so courteously and succinctly comments on the article.

Not many people today realise that what he says about the enormous losses sustained by Bomber Command is true.

The chances of surviving the war as a member of aircrew in Bomber Command were about one in two.

Only now, 63 years late, are writers like Sir Martin Gilbert, Sir Max Hastings, Patrick Bishop and Kevin Wilson boldly advocating the award of a campaign medal, so cruelly denied to them at war's end.

Austin Mitchell MP has raised an Early Day Motion (EDM 218) in the House of Commons, which seeks such an award, and the Sunday Express is currently producing a series of articles, Honour our bomber boys, which aims to deliver to Downing Street a petition with the same request.

In these circumstances, I suggest that the publishers of a comic entitled DFC might wish to have second thoughts.

JIM WRIGHT DFC Wing Commander (Ret) 61, 630 and 97 Squadrons Gibson Close Abingdon