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Dambusters 80th Anniversary
« on: Tuesday 16 May 23 16:20 BST (UK) »
Remembering the Dambusters Raid today..

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-65600179

Remembered with Honour.

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Re: Dambusters 80th Anniversary
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 16 May 23 16:31 BST (UK) »
Another photo.
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Re: Dambusters 80th Anniversary
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 16 May 23 16:34 BST (UK) »
The 80th Anniversary was mentioned on the News at lunch time.
Remembering all those brave lads.

Thank you Treetotal for posting a reminder

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Re: Dambusters 80th Anniversary
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 16 May 23 18:45 BST (UK) »
We won't see the fly past at 7 o'clock we are too far away, shame  ::)
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Re: Dambusters 80th Anniversary
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 16 May 23 19:59 BST (UK) »
LIVE SPECIAL 80TH ANNIVERSARY DAMBUSTERS RAID OPERATION CHASTICE - AVRO LANCASTER PA474

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yupcVpzC99w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-_HxMTwxCs

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Re: Dambusters 80th Anniversary
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 16 May 23 21:36 BST (UK) »
BBC programme on now.
Eighty years ago, they changed the course of the war.
What amazing men and such an outrageous mission,to fly so low.

Two trains of thought -but it was war and though many lives were lost how many more were saved by shortening the war by such means .
When the newsreels came later with the photographs of concentration camps
we saw better why such operations  were necessary .
Those young,very young men were so brave , only in their early twenties they
did all that was asked of them without faltering .
We will never be able to repay them and it saddens me that they are not so well known to later generations .
They gave their all.
THANK YOU.
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Re: Dambusters 80th Anniversary
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 16 May 23 22:27 BST (UK) »
Well said Victoria  :)
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Re: Dambusters 80th Anniversary
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 17 May 23 00:00 BST (UK) »
I've always thought what an extraordinary mind Barnes Wallis had that when he saw some youngsters playing with ball bearings his brain started working out how he could design a "bouncing bomb".   Many of us have played "ducks and Drakes" by throwing flat stones so that they bounced on top of water but I don't know of anyone who thought a round metal ball bearing could bounce too.
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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 17 May 23 11:33 BST (UK) »
A breakthrough in the back garden
Head and shoulders portrait of Dr Barnes Wallis.
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In 1942 British engineer Barnes Wallis began working on plans for a bomb that could skip across water. He developed the idea by experimenting with bouncing marbles across a water tub in his back garden. Wallis thought the new weapon could be used to attack moored battleships, but research soon focused on using it against the dams that were vital to German industry.

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