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"He made it absolutely perfect in the end, that's the sort of man he was"
Johnny Johnson, the last remaining bomb aimer from the Dambuster raid gives his thoughts on the man behind the invention of the bouncing bomb, Barnes Wallis.
Without the Lancaster there would have been no raid
Mary, daughter, Barnes Wallis, explains why she thinks Roy Chadwick is the unsung hero of the Dambusters operation.
Heroes with hammers
There was a period of just two months between approval being given in March 1943 and the actual Dambusters raid on May 16/17, 1943.
A lasting legacy – a major appeal launched as part of RAF100
A major fundraising appeal has been launched by the Royal Air Force and its four main charities as part of the Royal Air Force's centenary.
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The bouncing bomb just looked like a big glorified dustbin
Dambusters veteran, Johnny Johnson, describes his first encounter with both the mission-modified aircraft and the bouncing bomb itself.
When the two base pins were in line you dropped your bomb
Johnny Johnson, Dambusters veteran, explains what his bomb-drop training for the raid entailed.
He wanted to get his hands dirty
Mary Stopes-Roe, daughter of bouncing bomb inventor, Barnes Wallis, tells the story of Wallis’s eagerness to become an engineer at a young age.
Torrent rages along Ruhr
On May 18, 1943, the Daily Mirror reported that "hundreds of square miles of devastation have spread through the Ruhr, Germany's most vital and most densely-populated industrial area".
We all just knew that he was very pressured
Barnes Wallis, the inventor of the bouncing bomb, knew from the start of the Second World War that he would have an important role to play.
Guy Gibson, the essence of good leadership
Dambusters veteran, Johnny Johnson, during which he imparted his thoughts on RAF hero and commander of Squadron 617, Guy Gibson.
