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Of the many thousands of heroic night raids accomplished during RAF Bomber Command’s long six year campaign, one, above all, captured the imagination of an admiring public.
Just after midnight on the night of 16/17 May 1943, Lancaster crews of 617 Squadron undertook what was to become the most remarkable raid of WWII when the specially selected crews made a surprise attack on the...
THE REMARKABLE RECOLLECTIONS OF OUR GREAT FRIEND AND LEGENDARY DAMBUSTER, GEORGE 'JOHNNY' JOHNSON
On 16 May 1943 Johnny, alongside 132 other specially selected airmen, took off from Scampton airbase to fulfil one near impossible mission: to destroy three dams deep within Germany's Ruhr Valley. It was a daring task but, against the odds, Johnny and his crew survived. Sadly, 53...
Flying at altitudes as low as fifty feet and observing strict radio silence, the crews taking part in the Dambuster Raids faced heavy flak and ground fire as they crossed Holland to Germany. On the run into the target, using their height finding spotlights, they would have to fly in complete darkness at precisely 60 feet before their lethal cargo could be released.
Gerald uses his...
The Möhne Dam - 17 May 1943 00.49hrs
The journey had been eventful, flying low they had crossed the Dutch coast and headed inland, skimming along canals and the countryside at tree-top heights and meeting heavy flak at various points along the route.
This dramatic scene depicts Guy Gibson engaging enemy flak positions whilst Lancaster AJ-J , with pilot David...
This atmospheric pair of prints commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Dambuster Raids are available individually or as part of a matching-numbered pair.
Lancaster AJ-N scores a direct hit on the Eder Dam with its bouncing bomb during the famous Dambusters raid on the night of 16/17 May 1943. Pilot Officer Les Knight and Flight Engineer Ray Grayston fight the controls to clear the dam, combining their physical strength to haul the lumbering Lancaster up and over the dam and clear the high ground that lies ahead. With a tremendous explosion...
On the night of 16/17 May 1943 an elite force of nineteen Lancaster bombers undertook what was to become one of the most daring and ingenious air raids in history. Flying from RAF Scampton, their mission – code named Operation Chastise - was to breach the mighty hydroelectric dams of the Ruhr, the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe – a task which Arthur Harris had earlier described as impossible...
RAF Scampton - 16 May 1943 20.55hrs
Everyone at Scampton suspected that something big was about to happen. The crews of the recently formed 617 Squadron, hand-picked by their CO Wing Commander Guy Gibson, had been training hard for weeks and the rumour on the grapevine suggested it might be the Tirpitz they were after. But then, late in the afternoon of 16 May 1943...
On the night of 16/17 May 1943 the Lancasters of 617 Squadron breached the mighty Dams of the Ruhr Valley in one of the most remarkable precision bombing raids of World War II – a mission all but a few thought was impossible.
All was quiet in the Ruhr valley on the night of 16/17 May 1943. Bright moonlight illuminated the night sky and the normally dark waters of...
Robert Taylor’s sensational painting portrays the unfolding drama played out in the early hours of 17 May 1943. Guy Gibson and Mick martin have both made successful runs, and ‘Hoppy’ Hopgood, hit by the flak, has crashed in flames. The dam wall, however, has held firm. Now it was the turn of Melvin ‘Dinghy’ Young in Lancaster...
