Monthly Archives: May 2008
Pride of Kent (Part II)
Sorry to anyone who travelled all the way to Manston in Kent for Sunday’s event – it was cancelled at short notice due to adverse weather conditions. (Of course, by Sunday afternoon, the skies were blue, and the air was … Continue reading
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Pride of Kent
If you didn’t get to see the Lancaster/Spitfire/Hurricane flypast in Derbyshire last week, you have another chance to see at least one of these this coming Sunday, when the Kent Spitfire takes part in the Manston fly-in, at Manston airfield … Continue reading
Filed under Reculver, Spitfire Memorial Museum, Uncategorized
Flying with the Dambusters – live video!
I missed this BBC posting on Friday. This is a seven minute sequence of video (no commentary) shot inside the BBMF Lancaster as it makes its three passes over the Derwent reservoir. It’s mainly taken from inside the bomb aimer’s … Continue reading
Filed under Anniversaries, BBMF
Dambuster survivors
Somebody has recently asked me privately how many of the original Dambusters are still alive. The answer to that is six. I am not going to name all of them here, as I think that one of them no longer … Continue reading
Filed under Anniversaries, Dambuster survivors, Operation Chastise
Dambusters raid 65th anniversary: video coverage
Great BBC video coverage of today’s Dambusters 65th anniversary flypast at the Derwent dam in Derbyshire. The ‘City of Lincoln’ Lancaster from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight can be seen overflying the dam three times. Another report showing footage recorded … Continue reading
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The bombsight used to break the Möhne Dam
I’ve only had this blog up and running for about a week, but I’ve noticed that I already get many more hits on it than on the companion site devoted to my book. So with that in mind, I thought … Continue reading
Filed under Dam Busters 1955 film, Operation Chastise
Wartime newsreels
This has been on Youtube for several months, but there may be people who haven’t seen it. It is a compilation of two newsreels from 1943 and one from 1955. The first two show King George VI and the Queen … Continue reading
Filed under Dam Busters 1955 film, Newsreels
Two memories
Two more pieces which have been on the interwebnet for a while, but may have escaped your notice. BBC Radio Kent documentary about 617 Squadron’s test runs at Reculver in April and May 1943, including interviews with two people who … Continue reading
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Blue birds over?
There are several people who took part in the Dams Raid still alive, so it was a bit of a shock to read on the BBC website that ‘the last of the Dambusters’ has just departed this life – and … Continue reading
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Harry Humphries
I know that it’s a couple of months late, but this blog didn’t exist until just now. So it’s appropriate that I should pay tribute to the late Harry Humphries, who died in February. He was the founder adjutant of … Continue reading
Filed under Obituaries
