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Remembering Dambusters at 65
Remembering Dambusters at 65
Last Modified: 16 May 2008
By:
Lucy Manning
The Dambusters raid is celebrated with fly-past of an original world war two Lancaster over the Derwent Reservoir in Derbyshire.
65 years ago tonight the RAF's 617 squadron set off to target three dams in Nazi Germany's Ruhr Valley.
It was one of the most daring and ingenious air raids of the war - later of course to be immortalised on film as the Dambusters.
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