According to the Dutch government around 5,500 aircraft were lost over the country during World War Two, giving just a small insight into the scale of destruction during the devastating conflict, which took place between 1939 and 1945.  

Some estimates have placed the number of total lost and damaged aircraft during the war at over 100,000, a gargantuan number when you consider that today the United States (US) Air Force, the largest in the world, operates a fleet of under 6,000.  

But the true horror of World War Two has never been defined by the number of aircraft or vehicles destroyed but by the individuals onboard that sadly never returned home.  

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