No #6 Group in Bomber Command?

What if W.L.MacKenzie King refused to approve the formation of Number 6 Group, Royal Air Force Bomber Command in January of 1943?

What if MK feared that excessive casualties in an all-Canadian Bomber Group would cause a conscription crisis?
OTL During the worst period, Bomber Command suffered 25 percent casualties ... as bad as WW1 trench-fighters.

Where would all those extra Canadian pilots, bombardiers, navigators, flight engineers and gunners serve?
Where would the Canadian-made Lancasters go?
 
What if W.L.MacKenzie King refused to approve the formation of Number 6 Group, Royal Air Force Bomber Command in January of 1943?

What if MK feared that excessive casualties in an all-Canadian Bomber Group would cause a conscription crisis?
OTL During the worst period, Bomber Command suffered 25 percent casualties ... as bad as WW1 trench-fighters.

Where would all those extra Canadian pilots, bombardiers, navigators, flight engineers and gunners serve?
Where would the Canadian-made Lancasters go?

No idea where the pilots would go in this hypothetical, but Bomber Harris would probably invade Canada himself to make sure the Lancs end up with him
 
The formation of No. 6 Group was driven by a Canadian desire to have a distinct presence in the air war. If not formed as a purely Canadian unit, then, RCAF bomber squadrons are most likely dispersed through Bomber Command.

Whilst casualties amongst Canadians would be no lower than OTL, to within the margin of error anyway, they couldn't be associated with being a Canadian formation and risk a conscription crisis.
 
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