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Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, [1] [2] was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special "bouncing bombs" developed by Barnes Wallis.
Assetto Corsa (Italian for "Race Setup") is a sim racing video game developed by the Italian video game developer Kunos Simulazioni. It is designed with an emphasis on a realistic racing experience with support for extensive customization and moddability .
The Dam Busters is a combat flight simulation game set in World War II and published by U.S. Gold. It was released in 1984 for ColecoVision and Commodore 64; in 1985 for Apple II, MS-DOS, MSX, and ZX Spectrum; then in 1986 for the Amstrad CPC and NEC PC-9801. It is loosely based on Operation Chastise and the 1955 film.
The Dam Busters, a 1984 video game loosely based on Operation Chastise "Dambusters", a 2011 episode of Ice Pilots NWT Season 3 about recreating Operation Chastise; VFA-195 (U.S. Navy), a United States Navy fighter squadron; A name for people who work in dam removal; One of the 52 games in Action 52; Dambuster Studios, a game development company
Assetto Corsa Competizione (Italian for "race setup", "competition") is a sim racing video game developed by Italian video game developer Kunos Simulazioni.The game focuses on GT3, GT4, GT2 and one make series cars and is an officially licensed simulation of the GT World Challenge Europe and the Total 24 Hours of Spa covering seasons from 2018 to 2023, and is set to serve as a platform for ...
Number 617 Squadron is a Royal Air Force aircraft squadron, originally based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and currently based at RAF Marham in Norfolk. [2] It is commonly known as "The Dambusters", for its actions during Operation Chastise against German dams during the Second World War.
John Hopgood was born on 29 August 1921 in Hurst, Berkshire, to solicitor Harold Hopgood and his second wife Grace.Harold's first wife Beatrice had died in 1918. John was the middle of three children from this second marriage (in addition to a half brother and sister from the first) and was educated at Marlborough College.
The squadron was created to attack the dams of the Ruhr in an effort to wreck the industrial capacity of Germany. It was initially called Squadron "X", as the speed of its formation outstripped the RAF process for naming squadrons. Twenty-one bomber crews were selected from existing squadrons in 5 Group.