The Dambusters http://dambusters.be Aprés moi, Le Déluge Mon, 09 May 2011 18:44:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 We will remember them 4 mei 2011 http://dambusters.be/we-will-remember-them-4-mei-2011 http://dambusters.be/we-will-remember-them-4-mei-2011#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 21:20:58 +0000 Willy Horemans http://dambusters.be/?p=773

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]]> http://dambusters.be/we-will-remember-them-4-mei-2011/feed 0 16 May 2008 (article in English) http://dambusters.be/16-may-2008-article-in-english http://dambusters.be/16-may-2008-article-in-english#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:59:25 +0000 Willy Horemans http://dambusters.be/?p=732 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 [...]

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]]> http://dambusters.be/16-may-2008-article-in-english/feed 0 The effect (article in English) http://dambusters.be/the-effect-article-in-english http://dambusters.be/the-effect-article-in-english#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:58:50 +0000 Willy Horemans http://dambusters.be/?p=730 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 [...]

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]]> http://dambusters.be/the-effect-article-in-english/feed 0 Verklarende lijst http://dambusters.be/verklarende-lijst http://dambusters.be/verklarende-lijst#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:53:29 +0000 Willy Horemans http://dambusters.be/?p=705 RAF – Royal Air Force, Britse koninklijke luchtmacht. Sqn – Squadron, eskader, luchtmacht eenheid. 617 sqn – Het Britse eskader dat de aanval op de dammen uitvoerde. Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris – Opperbevelhebber van Bomber Command. Bomber Command – de [...]

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]]> http://dambusters.be/verklarende-lijst/feed 0 Dambuster wandelpad http://dambusters.be/dambuster-wandelpad http://dambusters.be/dambuster-wandelpad#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:46:35 +0000 Willy Horemans http://dambusters.be/?p=657 Op 20 april 2011 was het zover, de wandelroute die de naam kreeg: ‘de Vliegeniersroute’ werd geopend. Centraal in dit thema staan Guy Gibson, Jim Warwick en de Dambusters. Hieronder enkele fotos van de voorbereidingen en de opening van [...]

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]]> http://dambusters.be/dambuster-wandelpad/feed 0 North meets South http://dambusters.be/north-meets-south http://dambusters.be/north-meets-south#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:15:58 +0000 Willy Horemans http://dambusters.be/?p=172 vlnr: Willy Horemans, Corry & Pieter Jutte

Na 8 jaar ontmoeten ze elkaar, de warbirds en strijdbewijs webmasters

Willy Horemans en Pieter [...]

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]]> http://dambusters.be/north-meets-south/feed 0 Dambusters March (article in English) http://dambusters.be/dambusters-march http://dambusters.be/dambusters-march#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:50:24 +0000 English http://dambusters.be/?p=569 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 [...]

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]]> http://dambusters.be/dambusters-march/feed 0 Steenbergen (article in English) http://dambusters.be/steenbergen-eng http://dambusters.be/steenbergen-eng#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:42:54 +0000 English http://dambusters.be/?p=539 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 [...]

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