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- Three of the 133 are still alive today: George Johnson, Les Munro and Frederick Sutherland.
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Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, [1] [2] was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special "bouncing bombs" developed by Barnes Wallis.
- 16-17 May 1943
- 2 dams breached
- Eder, Möhne and Sorpe (Röhr) rivers, Germany
May 16, 2020 · The surviving “Dambusters” found themselves famous at home and in the U.S., where Winston Churchill was visiting President Franklin Roosevelt. Thirty-three medals were awarded, making No. 617 the most highly decorated squadron in Bomber Command.
Sep 2, 2013 · True story. George 'Johnny' Johnson, one of three surviving Dambusters, thanked the BBC for its work on the online gallery but said any account of the raid would not be complete without the...
On the night of 16-17 May 1943, Wing Commander Guy Gibson led 617 Squadron of the Royal Air Force on an audacious bombing raid to destroy three dams in the Ruhr valley, the industrial heartland of Germany. The mission was codenamed Operation 'Chastise'. The dams were fiercely protected.
May 16, 2018 · Their targets were three dams in the Ruhr valley, the destruction of which, it was hoped, would cause havoc in Germany’s industrial heartland. For the raid a specially devised “Bouncing Bomb” had been created by the inventor Barnes Wallace.
Aug 27, 2013 · A daring World War II night time raid on three dams in the early hours of 17 May 1943 immortalised the RAF's 617 Squadron as the "Dambusters". This is the the first time that photographs of all...
May 17, 2018 · IT was 75 years ago today that 617 Squadron of Bomber Command of the RAF returned to their base at Scampton in Lincolnshire having carried out the most famous air raid in history, and from that day on they were known as the Dambusters.
