(Daily Express-UK) Giles Sheldrick - Mark Regev, the Israeli ambassador to Britain, maintains he and his three siblings are only alive because of selfless sacrifice made during World War II by the brave airmen of the RAF Bomber Command. Regev's grandfather, Joachim Freiberg, was a slave laborer in Magdeburg, Germany, which was bombed by the RAF on Jan. 16, 1945, enabling him to escape. He lived off the land for four months until liberation by the Americans. Some 55,573 RAF airmen were killed in action during the war.
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