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2. The Dam Busters (radio serial) - Wikipedia

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   The Dam Busters is a 1954 Australian radio serial written by Morris West and produced by Gordon Grimsdale. [1]It was based on the book The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill.West and Grimsdale also did radio adaptations of Brickhill's books The Great Escape and Reach for the Sky.

3. Dave Shannon - Wikipedia

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   The son of Howard Huntley Shannon and Phoebe Madeline (née Watson), David John Shannon was born on 27 May 1922 at Unley Park, South Australia.His father was an auctioneer who went on to serve as a South Australian state parliamentarian from 1933 to 1968; his grandfather, John Wallace Shannon, had been a state parliamentarian from 1896 to 1902, and a Federal senator from 1914 to 1920.

4. Operation Chastise - Wikipedia

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   Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, [1] [2] was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special "bouncing bombs" developed by Barnes Wallis.

5. Nigger (dog) - Wikipedia

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   Nigger often accompanied Gibson on training flights [1] and was a great favourite of the members of both 106 and 617 Squadrons. He was noted for his liking of beer, which he drank from his own bowl in the Officers' Mess. [2] Nigger died on 16 May 1943, the day of the famous "Dambusters" raid, when he was hit by a motorist. He was buried at ...

6. Johnny Johnson (RAF officer) - Wikipedia

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   Squadron Leader George Leonard Johnson MBE DFM (25 November 1921 − 7 December 2022), better known as Johnny Johnson, was a British Royal Air Force officer who was the last surviving original member of No. 617 Squadron RAF and of Operation Chastise, the "Dambusters" raid of 1943.

7. The Dam Busters (film) - Wikipedia

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   The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic docudrama war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave, that was directed by Michael Anderson.Adapted by R. C. Sherriff from the books The Dam Busters (1951) by Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead (1946) by Guy Gibson, the film depicts the true story of Operation Chastise when in 1943 the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder, and Sorpe ...

8. Remodeled Dave and Buster's welcomes hundreds to grand ... - AOL

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   JACKSON TWP. – Eric Paliswat made sure he was one of the first 200 people Friday to get into the newly "reimagined" Dave & Buster's. The Dallas-based arcade, sports bar and restaurant chain ...

9. No. 617 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia

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   Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History. Virgin Books. ISBN 978-1-905264-33-9. – first hand accounts of the planning, preparation and execution of the raid. Ashworth, Chris (1989). Encyclopaedia of Modern Royal Air Force Squadrons. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-013-6. Bouquet, Tim 617 Going to War with Today's Dambusters ...