An attack by Royal Air Force 617 Squadron on German dams using bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. The operation was led by Guy Gibson. Subject of the 1955 film The Dambusters for which Eric Coates wrote the famous score. The picture source website explains how the bombs worked.
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Dambusters Raid
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Guy Gibson
English Heritage Guy Gibson VC, 1918 - 1944, pilot, leader of the Dambusters ...
Road Research Laboratory
{By an image of a Lancaster Bomber:} Tests conducted by the Road Research Lab...
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War dead, WW2
1 memorial
R. Wiles
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Godfrey T. James
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Able Seaman Victor Edmund Bloye
Victor Edmund Bloye was born on 13 August 1920 in St Pancras, London, the youngest of the four children of Herbert Edmund Bloye (1886-1959) and Elsie Mary Bloye née Atherton (1892-1976). His birth ...
War dead, WW2
2 memorials
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Cllr. Maurice Heaster
Conservative councillor. Mayor of Wandsworth in 1985. Chair of the Wandsworth Policy and Finance Committee 1994. Awarded an OBE in 2010 when he had "been a councillor for 40 years, and deputy leade...
1 memorial
Randolph Caldecott
WC1, Great Russell Street, 46
Greater London Council Randolph Caldecott, 1846 - 1886, artist and book illustrator, lived here.
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