Any historian will confirm that it was a IX(B) Sqn Lancaster that dropped the bombs that sank it!
Perhaps any IX Sqn historian would.
Can someone please enlighten me then as to why Sqn Ldr (Retd) Tony Iveson DFC would not be telling the truth??
After all, he is ex 617 Sqn and was on the Tirpitz raid.
Or is this a Sqn rivalry thing .....
You've answered your own question. It's not a matter of 'truth'. Nobody knows so veterans of both squadrons can (and do) make the claim.
The rot started well before the Tirpitz bit, comparing the bombing of Hamburg with the Nazi Extermination Camps
I agree. That comparison was absurd.
I was also uncomfortable about the poorly researched and unfair references to Bomber Harris.
these programmes are made for the consumption of the general public and so they're pitched at an appropriate level.
True.
The media obsession with 'celebrities' strikes yet again.
