Sunday, May 16, 2021

RECOMMENDED VIDEO: OPERATION CHASTISE ANIMATION.

OTD, or rather, On This Night in 1943, 19 Lancasters under the command of Wing Commander Guy Gibson took off from RAF Scampton to attack several Ruhr dams which were crucial for hydro-electric power. It was the beginning of Operation Chastise;





Check out this exerpt from the 1955 movie The Dambusters:





MFBB.

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