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Friday was the 65th anniversary of the Dambusters raid and a small service
was held at Derwent reservoir near Sheffield. These are from the fly past
by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and a couple of present bombers
from 617 Sqd.

Thanks! A great set of pictures.

MacMan

RustY© wrote:
Friday was the 65th anniversary of the Dambusters raid and a small service
was held at Derwent reservoir near Sheffield. These are from the fly past
by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and a couple of present bombers
from 617 Sqd.

Thanks RustY©,

Brilliant stuff - yet again!

®i©ardo

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Moving things in still pictures!

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Friday was the 65th anniversary of the Dambusters raid and a small service
was held at Derwent reservoir near Sheffield. These are from the fly past
by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and a couple of present bombers
from 617 Sqd.


Rusty,
Thankyou just doesnt say enough.
I am indebted to you for taking the time to take and then post these
pictures on here for us who will never be able to go and see spectacles like
this 'live'.
Thankyou from the bottom of my heart.
--

Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF
East Innisfail,
Queensland,
Australia

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Friday was the 65th anniversary of the Dambusters raid and a small
service was held at Derwent reservoir near Sheffield. These are
from the fly past by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and a
couple of present bombers from 617 Sqd.

So, these pics are local to Great Britain, Rusty? I'm aware of this raid
primarily from the B & W movie and from the History Channel episode about
it. IIRC, it was some dam in the Ruhr River in Germany that was actually
bombed.

--
HP, aka Jerry

"If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck"

"HEMI-Powered" wrote in message
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So, these pics are local to Great Britain, Rusty? I'm aware of this raid
primarily from the B & W movie and from the History Channel episode about
it. IIRC, it was some dam in the Ruhr River in Germany that was actually
bombed.


Searching in Google for 'Dambusters' will bring up lots of info about this
operation that put a new word into the language. This site below gives the
details of the raid.....
http://www.dambusters.org.uk/

Video footage is also available............
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...316235,00.html
http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/vi...urceID=1316265
http://www.itv.com/News/Articles/Bom...789983885.html
http://dambustersblog.com/

And don't forget.........
http://www.bbmf.co.uk/
http://www.raf.mod.uk/structure/617squadron.cfm

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"HEMI-Powered" wrote in message
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So, these pics are local to Great Britain, Rusty? I'm aware of this
raid primarily from the B & W movie and from the History Channel
episode about it. IIRC, it was some dam in the Ruhr River in
Germany that was actually bombed.


Searching in Google for 'Dambusters' will bring up lots of info
about this operation that put a new word into the language. This
site below gives the details of the raid.....
http://www.dambusters.org.uk/

I don't need some smart-ass to tell me about Google. I asked the OP who
posted these pics thinking he'd know about it. I already said I am
minimally familiar with it, but not the modern day reconstruction.

Video footage is also available............
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...316235,00.html
http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/vi...urceID=1316265
http://www.itv.com/News/Articles/Bom...s-date-7899838
85.html http://dambustersblog.com/

And don't forget.........
http://www.bbmf.co.uk/
http://www.raf.mod.uk/structure/617squadron.cfm

never heard of any of these, don't really care if I ever do, though. I
liked the movie, it's an interesting story, but one which over-
glorifies the true nature of the Brit's accomplishments in the war.

--
HP, aka Jerry

"If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck"

I don't need some smart-ass to tell me about Google. I asked the OP who
posted these pics thinking he'd know about it. I already said I am
minimally familiar with it, but not the modern day reconstruction.

Speaking of smart-ass:
If you had read the original post, you would have read that this
re-enactment/celebration was done at this location because this dam was used
in the development of the system and techniques used in the actual raids. I
don't think Rusty was being a smart ass at all. He was simply making a note
that if someone wanted more information, they could locate it using Google.
You may want to take that suggestion since your self proclaimed minimal
familiarity is lacking. As far as "over glorifying the true nature of the
Brit's accomplishments in the war", I think they earned a lot of glory and
should never be slammed by a true smart ass.
Rob

"HEMI-Powered" wrote in message
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I don't need some smart-ass to tell me about Google. I asked the OP who
posted these pics thinking he'd know about it. I already said I am
minimally familiar with it, but not the modern day reconstruction.

never heard of any of these, don't really care if I ever do, though. I
liked the movie, it's an interesting story, but one which over-
glorifies the true nature of the Brit's accomplishments in the war.

HP, aka Jerry

No I can't find any links to the service but those news links should tell
you all you need to know about it. The last time this was done was 15 years
ago so we may have to wait a long time for another.

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"HEMI-Powered" wrote in message
...

So, these pics are local to Great Britain, Rusty? I'm aware of this
raid primarily from the B & W movie and from the History Channel
episode about it. IIRC, it was some dam in the Ruhr River in
Germany that was actually bombed.


Searching in Google for 'Dambusters' will bring up lots of info
about this operation that put a new word into the language. This
site below gives the details of the raid.....
http://www.dambusters.org.uk/

I don't need some smart-ass to tell me about Google. I asked the OP who
posted these pics thinking he'd know about it. I already said I am
minimally familiar with it, but not the modern day reconstruction.

Video footage is also available............
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...316235,00.html
http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/vi...urceID=1316265
http://www.itv.com/News/Articles/Bom...s-date-7899838
85.html http://dambustersblog.com/

And don't forget.........
http://www.bbmf.co.uk/
http://www.raf.mod.uk/structure/617squadron.cfm

never heard of any of these, don't really care if I ever do, though. I
liked the movie, it's an interesting story, but one which over-
glorifies the true nature of the Brit's accomplishments in the war.


Never heard of what? The RAF? The BBMF? 617 Squadron?

As for 'the true nature of the Brit's accomplishments', what might that
be exactly?
--
Peter

Ying tong iddle-i po!