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67 years on
This year, 2010, 16 May will fall on a Sunday. On another Sunday 16 May, in 1943, 133 aircrew in 19 Lancaster aircraft took off from RAF Scampton on what would prove to be the RAF’s most famous bombing...
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Dambuster memorabilia of Flt Sgt ‘Jimmy’ Green
Pic: Dominic Howard Flt Sgt Gilbert John (“Jimmy”) Green was the bomb aimer in Cyril Anderson’s crew aboard AJ-Y on the Dams Raid. See here for more about what happened to this crew after the raid. A...
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Annual commemoration, Wickhambreaux, Kent, 14 September 2010
All are welcome to join members of the East Kent RAF Aircrew Association and the Maltby family at David Maltby’s grave in St Andrew’s Church, Wickhambreaux, Kent, at 11.30am on Tuesday 14 September...
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Hatton, Hill and Maltby Dambuster families paying respects
Members of three Dambuster families came together earlier this week to mark the anniversary of the deaths of their relatives. Pictured above are (far left) William Castle, nephew of Sgt William...
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Lancaster flyover, Wickhambreaux, Kent, Saturday 10 September
This year, the annual commemoration of Dambuster David Maltby and his crew, which takes place in Wickhambreaux, Kent, has an extra ingredient – a flypast by the UK’s only flying Avro Lancaster. The...
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Les Knight’s mother at his grave – new picture
A Dutch correspondent, Hans Dekker, who lives in Den Ham, has kindly sent me some exciting rare photographs concerning Flt Lt Les Knight, the pilot of AJ-N on the Dams Raid, who was killed in a later...
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Dams Raid crews remembered at Reichswald
Pics: Mitch Buiting Twenty-seven of the 53 Allied aircrew who died on the Dams Raid on 16/17 May 1943 are buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. They came from the four crews captained by Henry...
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Remembrance Day in Sardinia: commemorating Bob Hay
Wg Cdr Baz Potts places a poppy on the grave of Flt Lt Bob Hay. [Pic: Sgt Jamie Johnson, RAF] Not all the Dams Raid aircrew who died during the war are buried in the large war cemeteries in Germany....
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