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BBC News - Last surviving Dambuster Johnny Johnson dies aged 101
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-63899393
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-63899393
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Eighty years on from the Dambusters Raid — a mission so secretive the details were kept from the crews until the night before - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05...mbusters-raid-eightieth-anniversary/102348188
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05...mbusters-raid-eightieth-anniversary/102348188
Pencil it in for 10years for the 90th,
A really nice piece in the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
'We did what we had to do': The true story of World War Two's Dambusters raid
In May 1943, a specially formed RAF squadron embarked on a daring moonlit mission. In 1976, the BBC spoke to one of the airmen who made it home alive.
www.bbc.co.uk
Thanks for sharing, a very interesting read.
It dodged fighters, was hit by anti-aircraft fire, and spent the last 81 years languishing in a bog. Now the Dambusters’ last surviving Lancaster bomber faces its ultimate enemy – Swedish environmentalists.
A rescue attempt is being launched to recover the last remaining Avro Lancaster of its type from Sweden as the country’s authorities consider scrapping the historic aircraft.
Nicknamed Easy Elsie by its wartime crew, the aircraft crash-landed in the bog after it was hit by German anti-aircraft fire over Norway in 1944.
It has been left there untouched ever since. But now local authorities are planning to return the bog, near the northern Swedish town of Porjus, to its “native environment” – a move that risks the final destruction of Easy Elsie.
A rescue attempt is being launched to recover the last remaining Avro Lancaster of its type from Sweden as the country’s authorities consider scrapping the historic aircraft.
Nicknamed Easy Elsie by its wartime crew, the aircraft crash-landed in the bog after it was hit by German anti-aircraft fire over Norway in 1944.
It has been left there untouched ever since. But now local authorities are planning to return the bog, near the northern Swedish town of Porjus, to its “native environment” – a move that risks the final destruction of Easy Elsie.
Nice YouTube film of the bouncing bomb development.