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.
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Dambusters Raid
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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...
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A. E. Sherwood
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Rifleman Frederick William Pozzi
Frederick William Pozzi was born on 5 June 1889 in Edmonton, Middlesex, (now Greater London) the youngest of the four children of Albert Pozzi (1858-1894) and Emma Pozzi née Webster (1859-1929). On...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
ORP Piorun
Former Destroyer in the Polish Navy. ORP stands for Okret Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Ship of the Polish Republic).
1 memorial
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York Watergate
WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens
The streets laid out on the site of York House were named: Villiers Street, Duke Street, Buckingham Street, George Court and Of Alley (no...
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Tony Ray-Jones
W1, Gloucester Place, 102
Westminster City Council Tony Ray-Jones, photographer, 1941 - 1972, lived and worked here. Royal Photographic Society
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Charles Shannon
Charles Haslewood Shannon. Lithographer and painter. Born Lincolnshire. Met his life partner, Charles Ricketts, in 1882. See there for more about their life and work together. 1929 Shannon suffere...
1 memorial
Matthew Arnold
SW1, Chester Square, 2
London County Council Matthew Arnold, 1822 - 1888, poet and critic, lived here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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