Tonight.

[Sqad]

78 years ago tonight 19 Lancasters of 617 squadron left R.A,F Scampton to attack the great dams of the Ruhr.
Just saying. ....-;)

[bhg481]

Getting a Lancaster into position for the bomb to hit the Eder dam was an amazing feat of flying.

[gulliver1]

T/C 21.59, Wicked.

[Peter Pedant]

erm no- My father tried as a now German and Russian speaker to persuade one of the german workers/servants to bring in food ( that he paid for)
and she said no - she was prepared to risk a concentration camp for a few things but not bringing in food to POWs.

[Peter Pedant]

21 59 - I thought the testimony was obviously true which is why I transcribed it. I had forgotten experimentation in Russian POW camps.(*)

Teacake's comment on the other hand is - your dad is a damned liar.
Cool. He can say it.

(*) They were testing a not very good Typhus vaccine. Jan 1945 The (Death) March of the Prison Camps across Europe could be stopped by Typhus. so the (western) doctors bought typhus + blood ( for the blood tests see?) for a few loaves of bread from the Russian prisoners

[seekeerz]

Brave, brave men for whom we should be eternally grateful.
In fact, for all the brave men and women ...thank you.

[lady-janine]

Probably of interest to no one but my late f-i-l was a design engineer on Lancasters.

[emmie]

must have been a fascinating job LJ,

[emmie]

Brave Men indeed.