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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1943-05-16"
The Eder, Möhne and Sorpe operation
Ruhr dams breached and growing devastation in the Ruhr
Roy Chadwick at Scampton RAF Station on the Night of the Dam Buster Raid
Operation order for Eder, Möhne and Sorpe operation and other details
No. 5 Group Operation Order No. B. 976
No 617 Squadron and the operation to breach the dams
Newspaper cuttings and caricatures
Mohne dam breached
Mohne Dam
Memoir Flight Lieutenant Gordon Cruickshank D.F.M. RAFRO
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Medal; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; Mosquito; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Cardington; RAF Cranwell; RAF Credenhill; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Evanton; RAF Felixstowe; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Warmwell; searchlight; superstition; training; Victoria Cross; Whitley
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Letter to David Donaldson from his wife
Letter from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag Luft 3
Interview with Thomas Peter Payne. Two
Tags: 15 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 26 OTU; 90 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; Cook’s tour; crash; crewing up; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Brough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; RCAF Moncton; sanitation; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Les Munro
Tags: 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bouncing bomb; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); fear; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; take-off crash; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Johnny Johnson.Three
Interview with Johnny Johnson. One
Interview with Helmut Köhler
Guy Gibson's Log Book Extract
Gordon Dennett's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 15 OTU; 196 Squadron; 298 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-24; bale out; bomb aimer; Botha; C-47; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 7; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Driffield; RAF Evanton; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Leconfield; RAF Yatesbury; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Exhibition of Dambuster Pilots Wings
Eder Dam
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David Maltby's pilot's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranage; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Grantham; RAF Paignton; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wigsley; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training
Commissioning form
Tags: aircrew; pilot; promotion; RAF Wigsley
Caen-Carpiquet, Den Helder, Morlaix and unidentified canal
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