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Coming soon
I’m pleased to announce that my new book, The Complete Dambusters, will be published by History Press on 1 May. More details and some exclusive preview pages will follow, but for the moment, here is...
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Captured in paint: portraits of all 133 Dambusters to be unveiled
Six of Dan Llywelyn Hall’s portraits of the men who flew on the Dams Raid. Top row, left to right: George Deering, Kenneth Earnshaw, Charles Brennan. Bottom row, left to right: Tony Burcher, Alden...
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New Dam Busters print rolls out on Lincoln red carpet
The brand new high-definition restoration of the classic Dam Busters film is being premiered as one of the official opening events for the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln on Saturday 14...
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Starring Guy Gibson as himself: IWM releases wartime films
The Imperial War Museum has recently announced that it is converting more of its film collection into MP4 format, more suitable for viewing online across various platforms. One of the items which has...
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Dutch group seeking funds for memorial at AJ-S crash site
The crew of AJ-S. Left to right: Lewis Burpee (pilot), Guy Pegler (flight engineer), Thomas Jaye (navigator), Leonard Weller (wireless operator), James Arthur (bomb aimer), William Long (front...
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Eder Dam to host international memorial on 75th anniversary
Herr Oliver Köhler of the Dambusters Museum Germany, situated at the Eder Dam, pictured on the dam wall in 2013. [Pic: Harry Foster] One of the most significant events to commemorate the 75th...
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Dams Raid 75th anniversary: updated calendar of events
Here is a list of events organised to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Dams Raid in May. It will be updated again nearer the time of the actual anniversary, which falls on 16/17 May. Friday 4...
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Fred Sutherland unveils portrait in Alberta
Great to see a new photograph of Fred Sutherland, looking well. Last Thursday, in his home town of Rocky Mountain House in Alberta, Canada, Fred unveiled a new portrait of himself, painted by Dan...
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Michael Anderson dies at 98
It’s sad to have to report that the film director Michael Anderson died on Wednesday night, at the age of 98. He was best known to readers of this blog as the director of the 1955 film, The Dam...
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Lancaster will fly over Ladybower Dam on Dams Raid 75th anniversary – official
The BBMF Lancaster flying over the Ladybower Dam in 2008. [Pic: MoD/Wikimedia] The worst-kept secret of the events to commemorate the 75th anniversary off the Dams Raid is out! It has been officially...
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The aura of the Dams Raid
A number of publications are producing special editions or features to mark the 75th anniversary of the Dams Raid. Amongst these are the monthly magazine Britain at War, whose April number 2018...
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It’s here: Complete Dambusters on sale from 8 May
Great excitement at Blog HQ in the last few days when an advance copy of my new book The Complete Dambusters arrived! As I write, fleets of lorries are travelling across Europe bringing stock to...
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Taking off on the Dams Raid
IWM Collections CH18006 This is one of the pictures in my new book, The Complete Dambusters. It is a photograph taken by official Air Ministry photographer Flg Off W. Bellamy of a Lancaster taking off...
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Burpee and Arthur families at AJ-S memorial unveiling
Lewis Burpee Jr unveiling the memorial to the crew of AJ-S, killed on the Dams Raid, on 17 May 1943. A memorial to the Dams Raid crew piloted by the Canadian Lewis Burpee was unveiled on Friday near...
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John Wilkinson remembered in home village of Antrobus
Above: A new blue plaque in Antrobus Village Hall commemorating John Wilkinson. The small Cheshire village of Antrobus was the birthplace and home of Sgt John Wilkinson, wireless operator in Vernon...
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Anniversary events at the RAF Museum
The RAF Museum’s Lancaster. Events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Dams Raid will be held beneath its wings. [Pic: Geograph/Carlisle Kid] The RAF Museum in Hendon, North London, has four...
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Doncaster vandals steal Fraser plaque
The vandalised memorial stone in a Doncaster park. [Pic: Heather Allsworth] In April 1943, Canadian airman Flt Sgt John Fraser was allowed special leave for one day from training for the Dams Raid in...
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Historic Garbas-Garshowitz pose recreated for Dams Raid 75th anniversary
The nephews of Dams Raid veterans Frank Garbas and Albert Garshowitz recreated a historic wartime photograph in Canada shortly before leaving for England for the anniversary commemorations. Growing up...
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Blue plaque for Doug Webb to be unveiled on 17 May
PIC: Yahya El Droubie Seventy five years and four hours after his aircraft landed at Scampton after the Dams Raid, exhausted and with his bullet trays empty, Douglas Webb, the front gunner of AJ-O is...
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Wednesday’s dam flight likely to be called off, but may take place on Thursday
Tomorrow’s flight down Derbyshire’s Derwent valley by the BBMF Lancaster is likely to be called off, official BBMF sources say. However, Dambusters Blog understands that there is a possibility that...
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