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 can only add a picture of one of the bouncing bombs - on display at the Brooklands Museum.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/Barry.Humphries...0/DSC_4106.JPG

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?

Wasn't it Hugh Trevor-Roper who was Gibsons gunner?

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.

Full crew :

http://www.thedambusters.org.uk/aj-g.html

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.

That link does point to a very nice picture, though. The accompanying blurb writer does need to swat up on his/her geography!

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/

Eagle - Sir, I stand corrected! Thanks. It is a cracking moniker. I wonder if they were related?

Dambusters raid
 

Richard Todd was interviewed on the BBC program, and was modest enough not to mention that he did his bit on D DAY.

"...which led to a serious loss of watertight integrity." I suppose you could say that!