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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Combat Warplanes => Topic started by: mfg495 on May 16, 2008, 09:16:45 AM

Title: 65 years ago another great raid
Post by: mfg495 on May 16, 2008, 09:16:45 AM

It was 65 years ago today (16 May 08) that the RAF, some say, undertook the greatest bombing raid of WW2. The low level attack on the dams in the Rhur Valley.
Operation Chastise was the name given to the raid, undertaken by the Lancaster's of 617 Squadron RAF, later to be known as the 'DAMBUSTERS'

A lot more information on the raid, which claimed the lives of over 50 aircrew, can be found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise

http://airrecce.co.uk/WW2/imagery/Dambusters/Dambusters.html

Title: Re: 65 years ago another great raid
Post by: No.1 on May 16, 2008, 09:22:55 AM

And you did not put it in Calendar  :-eek

Title: Re: 65 years ago another great raid
Post by: mfg495 on May 16, 2008, 11:07:50 AM

Quote from: No.1 on May 16, 2008, 09:22:55 AM

And you did not put it in Calendar  :-eek

Ooops Sooory , back to school for me  :-eek :-red