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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.
The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic docudrama war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave, that was directed by Michael Anderson.Adapted by R. C. Sherriff from the books The Dam Busters (1951) by Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead (1946) by Guy Gibson, the film depicts the true story of Operation Chastise when in 1943 the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder, and Sorpe ...
Dam busters : the true story of the inventors and airmen who led the devastating raid to smash the German dams in 1943. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-2169-1 .
The Dambusters underwent their first F-35 deployment on 22 May 2019 when six Lightnings deployed to RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, for six weeks as part of 'Exercise Lightning Dawn'. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] On 16 June, No. 617 Squadron carried out the first RAF F-35 operational mission when two Lightnings conducted a patrol over Syria as part of Operation Shader ...
"The Dam Busters March", the theme to the 1955 film by British composer Eric Coates; 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
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The son of Howard Huntley Shannon and Phoebe Madeline (née Watson), David John Shannon was born on 27 May 1922 at Unley Park, South Australia.His father was an auctioneer who went on to serve as a South Australian state parliamentarian from 1933 to 1968; his grandfather, John Wallace Shannon, had been a state parliamentarian from 1896 to 1902, and a Federal senator from 1914 to 1920.
Officer Commanding 617 Squadron Bomber Command Royal Air Force later known as the Dambusters, who carried out the daring and successful bombing raid on the German dams of the Ruhr in 1943. Guy's mother was a member of an old Porthleven family of Master Mariners and Porthleven was Guy's English home. 1918–1944 [ 199 ]