(Reports from family friends who knew Guy Gibson all state that he was an extraordinarily difficult man, but they’d have followed him into Hell and back.) At the time he took over 617 Squadron, Gibson had already flown more than 140 missions. He was just 24 years old.Back in the 80s I was at the Oktoberfest with a Brit friend of mine, and he asked the oompah band to play The Dambusters Song. They did!
1 posted on
05/17/2023 7:17:34 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Those Lancasters with the rolls Royce were capable of so d massive loads
2 posted on
05/17/2023 7:20:15 PM PDT by
NWFree
(Sigma male 🤪)
To: Rummyfan
Chair Force; Killing civilians by the thousands. So proud.
3 posted on
05/17/2023 7:21:30 PM PDT by
jdt1138
(Where ever you go, there you are.)
To: Rummyfan
Watched the movie many times with my father and brothers.
4 posted on
05/17/2023 7:24:09 PM PDT by
HandyDandy
(dominus vobiscum)
To: Rummyfan; All
Wing Commander Guy Gibson flew his last mission sixteen months later, on September 19, 1944 when his de Havilland Mosquito crashed near Steenbergen, in the Netherlands. The circumstances leading up to the crash and the death of one of the most highly-decorated RAF pilots in history and his navigator, Squadron Leader James Warwick, are unclear. The since-constructed industrial district commemorates the event with a union jack marked out in colored bricks in center of the street known as Mosquitostraat. Near by are also Gibsonstraat and Warwickstraat.
5 posted on
05/17/2023 7:27:03 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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11 posted on
05/17/2023 7:52:59 PM PDT by
bitt
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To: Rummyfan
16 posted on
05/18/2023 6:51:54 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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