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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Dambusters Raid
Commemorated ati
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...
Other Subjects
E. J. Hedges
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
W. W. Phillips
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
F. H. Fisher
Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
Flying Officer Hugh Hamilton Roe Browne
Hugh Hamilton Roe Browne was born on 10 April 1902 in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, one of the four children of Peter Otho Watkin Browne (1866-1955) and Jessie Browne née Carver (1862-1933). On 18 May 1...
P. E. Knight
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.