A Dams raid question...
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Painting/print
This is kind of on-topic...
I remember once seeing a painting (or a print of one) of 617Sqn Lancasters making one of the dam raids, with a second wave of 617Sqn Tornados turning in for their run. Cracking picture.
Did I dream it or can someone point to a possible source?
Ta.
I remember once seeing a painting (or a print of one) of 617Sqn Lancasters making one of the dam raids, with a second wave of 617Sqn Tornados turning in for their run. Cracking picture.
Did I dream it or can someone point to a possible source?
Ta.
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I can only add a picture of one of the bouncing bombs - on display at the Brooklands Museum.
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This is kind of on-topic...
I remember once seeing a painting (or a print of one) of 617Sqn Lancasters making one of the dam raids, with a second wave of 617Sqn Tornados turning in for their run. Cracking picture.
Did I dream it or can someone point to a possible source?
Ta.
This one maybe?
I remember once seeing a painting (or a print of one) of 617Sqn Lancasters making one of the dam raids, with a second wave of 617Sqn Tornados turning in for their run. Cracking picture.
Did I dream it or can someone point to a possible source?
Ta.
This one maybe?
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Green Flash,
Hugh Trevor-Roper is a military historian I believe. The Trevor-Roper in Guy Gibson's crew shared the surname but was Richard Algernon Dacre....
If ever a name was born to serve in the RAF that surely takes the biscuit.
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http://www.thedambusters.org.uk/aj-g.html
Hugh Trevor-Roper is a military historian I believe. The Trevor-Roper in Guy Gibson's crew shared the surname but was Richard Algernon Dacre....
If ever a name was born to serve in the RAF that surely takes the biscuit.
Full crew :
http://www.thedambusters.org.uk/aj-g.html
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Right theme but not the same picture.
My misty memory is telling me that the one I saw has a reservoir in the middle distance beyond some rolling hills with a lancaster left to right low over the water on an attack run. This side of the hills a pair of tonkas heads "into" the image over the hills to join their squadron mate.
It may have been on the wall of a mess but I saw it once and it made me smile.
I'll keep looking.
My misty memory is telling me that the one I saw has a reservoir in the middle distance beyond some rolling hills with a lancaster left to right low over the water on an attack run. This side of the hills a pair of tonkas heads "into" the image over the hills to join their squadron mate.
It may have been on the wall of a mess but I saw it once and it made me smile.
I'll keep looking.
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That link does point to a very nice picture, though. The accompanying blurb writer does need to swat up on his/her geography!
A Tornado follows a Lancaster over the Derwentwater Dam
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photos on a.net
A couple of photos of the 65th. anniversary, appeared recently on a.net:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK---...ter/1356178/L/
http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK---...ter/1356214/L/
http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK---...ter/1356178/L/
http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK---...ter/1356214/L/
