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Edward Johnson was one of five airmen in the 1943 raid who received the Distinguished Flying Cross.

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will commemorate the Operation Chastise attack on the Nazi Germany reservoirs which took place on the night of May 16, 1943.

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will commemorate the Operation Chastise attack on the Nazi Germany reservoirs which took place on the night of May 16, 1943.

(May 5, 2023) This week, 80 years ago, the RAF’s 617 Squadron, led by 24-year-old Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson, took off from Scrampton, an airfield in central England, to

The last surviving Dambuster Squad Leader George Leonard “Johnny” Johnson, has died aged 101.

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Squadron Leader Norman Scrivener (pictured), who served alongside Guy Gibson, flew in more than 100 bombing missions throughout the war despite suffering from terrible from air sickness.

Mr Johnson was aged just 22 when, as part of the RAFs 617 Squadron, he took part in the raid, which targeted dams in the Ruhr Valley in the industrial heart of Germany with bouncing bombs.

Pi love you! Hand-written maths lessons that Dambusters bouncing bomb inventor Barnes Wallis used to woo his 17-year-old wife who was HALF his age are set to sell for £2,000 The celebrated World War Two hero fell in love with his much younger cousin Molly Bloxham in the 1920s Her father felt it was inappropriate for her senior suitor, almost 20 years older, to be writing to the teenager But he did allow her to correspond provided he taught her mathematics, which she was studying at college Som...