ex-Sup said:
I dunno...just what the Wikipedia man tells me!
According to our friends again, bad, but not even close. The info here quotes 783 subs and 28,000 submariners (75% loss rate).
If you are interested in learning about Bomber Command I can recommend some books to you.
Max Hastings wrote a book titled "Bomber Command". In the forward he states that Bomber Command's "sacrifice was greater than the British Army's total loss of officers in the First World War." He goes on to state in the same paragraph, "The pitiful prospects of surviving a tour of bomber operations were only matched in hazard by the German U-boat service."
Martin Middlebrook is another historian who wrote a book titled, "The Bomber Command War Diaries". In the chapter "Statistics": "Aproximately 125,000 airmen served in the squadrons and the operational training and conversion units of Bomber Command during the war. Nearly 60 per cent of Bomber Command aircrew became casualties.
Both authors point out that all casualties were Sergeants, Warrant Officers and Commissioned Officers.
Murray Peden, author of "A Thousand Shall Fall: The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War Two" wrote "less than 25 out of each 100 crews would survive their first tour of 30 operations."
It seems you prefer wikipedia so here is a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bomber_Command#Casualties
Taking an example of 100 airmen:
55 killed on operations or died as result of wounds
three injured (in varying levels of severity) on operations or active service
12 taken prisoner of war (some injured)
two shot down and evaded capture
27 survived a tour of operations
And another:
http://www.elsham.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/raf_bc/
This is the Bomber Command Memorial in Alberta:
http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/commandlosses.html