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Miscellaneous => Other Topics => Off Topic => Topic started by: Graham Bell on May 16, 2019, 03:52:22 PM

Title: Operation Chastise-
Post by: Graham Bell on May 16, 2019, 03:52:22 PM
Seventy six years ago tonight 16th./17th. May 1943 Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron took off from RAF Scampton on "Operation Chastise",the Dambusters,fifty three crew members were killed,Lest We Forget.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/17/newsid_3623000/3623223.stm
Regards-
G.B.
Title: Re: Operation Chastise-
Post by: Roadrunner on May 17, 2019, 11:04:09 AM

The current generations have no idea what or airmen and women gave. I was born in 1946, so a lot of men who had been through it were around, infact, amongst the people I knew as a child were pilots, rear gunners from both Lancs and B17. Thousands gave their lives that we could live in peace and freedom.
Lest we forget.
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