Dambusters remembered 65 years on

[Sweetpea]

A service and fly-past will be held later to mark the 65th anniversary of the World War II Dambusters mission.
A Lancaster bomber will fly three times over Derwent Reservoir in Derbyshire, which was used by the original pilots to train ahead of their famous raid.
In 1943, the RAF's 617 Squadron set out to destroy three dams in Germany's Ruhr valley. They managed to breach two, giving a boost to Britain's war effort.
The service will remember the eight aircraft and 53 crew who were lost.
It will be held on top of the Derwent dam on Friday morning.
A Spitfire, a Hurricane, two Tornadoes and a Dakota transport plane - all from the present 617 Squadron - will join the fly-past. They are travelling from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to take part

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I would just love to be there.

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

giving a boost to Britain's war effort.

It drowned a couple of hundred civilians, and the factories that were SUPOSSED to be inconvenienced, where back in action, MOST within 24 hours.

It was a technical success, but a strategic failure.

[terrywit]

more a progander tool

[poppy]

Any idea what time it was.
I heard what sounded like an old bomber and a couple of jets go over this morning, not sure if they would fly this way to get there, we are about 50 to 60 miles south east of the lake.
The noise was striking something I heard all the time as a kid. Not a sound you forget.

[Sweetpea]

Brill picture I think

BRILLIANT photograph!

Poppy. The Battle of Britain flight NOW consisits of the Lancaster, a spitfire and a Huricane. PLUS a Glouster Meteor, and....oh bugger, a vampire, if I remember. Both the later are jets.

So you MAY be right.

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

Also just found that the "Vintage flight" also now has a Lightning, and a buccaneer.

ALSO NOTE. The Lancaster in the picture here, is NOT the "City of Lincoln". It appears they have got another one airworthy now.

[terrywit]

same aircraft, new paint job?



nice nose art, check the ice creams......lol