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The Lancaster of the BoB memorial flight over Derwent dam in 1988 On 16 May 2008, a commemorative event to mark the 65th anniversary was held at Derwent Reservoir, Derbyshire, including a flypast by the Battle of Britain [...] Ga naar 16 May 2008 (article in English) The two hits on the Möhnesee dam resulted in a breach around 250 feet (76 meters) wide and 292 feet (89 meters) deep. The destroyed dam poured around 330 million tons of water (equivalent to a cube 687 meters [...] Ga naar The effect (article in English) The Dambusters March is Eric Coates’s theme for the 1954 film The Dam Busters The composer’s son Austin Coates recounted in a radio interview for the BBC that the march was not actually written for the film and had [...] Steenbergen is a municipality and a city in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. The municipality has 23,202 inhabitants (May 31, 2009, source: CBS) and covers an area of 160 km ² (of which [...] Ga naar Steenbergen (article in English) Operation Chastise was an attack on German dams carried out on 16–17 May 1943 by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, subsequently known as the “Dambusters”, using a specially developed “bouncing bomb” invented and developed by Barnes Wallis. The [...] Artikel in het Nederlands Raymond Ernest Grayston 13 okt 1918 – 15 apr 2010 Grayston and his young Australian pilot, Les Knight, had teamed up to fly Manchester bombers with No 50 Squadron, and remained together [...] Artikel in het Nederlands The Catholic cemetery of Steenbergen – Photo: Willy Horemans Guy Gibson & Jim Warwick – Photo: Willy Horemans Dambuster Tour Group – Photo: Willy Horemans Tour group on the left Colin – Photo: [...] |
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