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AJ-J’s Dams Raid route on Google Earth
Steve Cooke has taken the time to plot out on Google Earth the route taken by AJ-J on the Dams Raid, as computed by Dick Timmers. You can download the file here. If you don’t have Google Earth installed on your computer, … Continue reading
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Snow, snow, thick, thick snow
With nothing to report except “adverse weather conditions”, let me take this opportunity to wish all readers of this blog a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. See you again in January!
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Dambuster Grant MacDonald at Williston Lake
One of the spectators at the bouncing bomb drops on Williston Lake (see post below) was none other than Grant MacDonald, rear gunner in Ken Brown’s crew on the Dams Raid. Here he is, on the left, with two of … Continue reading
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Munro interviewed about Dambusters remake
The only surviving Dams Raid pilot Les Munro has reportedly come out of retirement to visit the studio in Wellington NZ where the Dambusters remake will be made and is chuffed that it is being produced by a New Zealander. Long … Continue reading
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Dambusters team keep tune, get SAS support
This blog’s official football team is of course The Mighty Imps, whose fans have now taken the sensible decision to keep The Dam Busters March as their theme tune, played when the teams run out onto the pitch. Lincoln City has … Continue reading
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Gibson logbook, hat and letters on display
Anyone in London during the next month will have a rare opportunity to see some of Guy Gibson’s personal effects – his log, a hat and some letters. They are on show in the (you might think unlikely) venue of … Continue reading
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David and Ann Shannon’s headstones
Although David Shannon was an Australian, he stayed on in England after the war, joining Shell as an executive. He spent some time in both Colombia and Kenya before returning to the UK. He died on 8 April 1993, shortly … Continue reading
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Away for a while
I’ve had a few computer problems, which is why there have only been sporadic postings for the last two weeks. The hardware has been fixed, but I’m now going away on holiday. Plenty of stuff to report when I get … Continue reading
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Happy birthday!
The man who, unwittingly, set me off on the track of writing a book about the Dambusters was the actor George Baker, whose birthday is today. In an interview on the BBC Radio Today programme in December 2005 he told … Continue reading
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Question time
For some time Ron Lapp from Winnipeg has been trying to find out the answer to a question of detail about the Dams Raid: When the Lancaster nose turret guns were fired, as they certainly were on the Dams raid, … Continue reading
