Did you know? The roof of the Bomber Command memorial in London is made from aluminium from a downed Halifax bomber. It originally crashed in Belgium in May 1944, and was recovered from a swamp in the 1990s. Three of the crew were still entombed within the wreckage. They were buried at Geraardsbergen and the remains of the aircraft were sent to Canada. The pattern is supposed to evoke the design of a Wellington.