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Have you seen the 'Men of the Dams' art installation? Exactly 80 years after Operation Chastise, FlyPast’s Jamie Ewan visited the @InternationalBomberCommandCentre where a new art installation...
18 maj 2023 · The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster flew a special route over all of the county’s 28 Bomber Command bases on Tuesday evening in honour of the audacious mission, codenamed Operation Chastise.
16 maj 2023 · Operation Chastise, as the mission was officially named, is perhaps the best-known Bomber Command operation, with the crews' bravery immortalised in the 1955 film The Dam Busters.
Operation Chastise – THE DAMBUSTERS by Philip West 617 Sqn, Flt Lt Maltby and crew in AJ-J flying clear of the Mohne before their Upkeep mine exploded against and breached the dam. Operation Chastise became a legend in the annals of the RAF and military history.
9 maj 2018 · Rewind to March 1943, and shrouded in secrecy, the RAF’s Bomber Command assembled the elite 617 Squadron charged with carrying out an audacious night-time mission to disable Germany’s industrial heartland. Code named Operation Chastise, the plan was to attack and breach three great Ruhr Valley dams: the Möhne, the Eder and the Sorpe.
Have you seen the 'Men of the Dams' art installation? 20th June 2023. Exactly 80 years after Operation Chastise, FlyPast’s Jamie Ewan visited the International Bomber Command Centre where a new art installation commemorates the 53 airmen killed…
16 maj 2023 · The Dambusters trained over the Derwent Dam ahead of Operation Chastise, carried out 80 years ago.
