As well as the 53 brave airmen of 617 Squadron who did not return home tonight, lets also spare a thought for the other victims of war. Some 1,600 civil dead including 700 Ukrainian women slave labourers. Having visited a cemetery down stream of the Mohne, which includes the grave of a 6 month old baby and a 90 year old who died in the möhnekatastrophe lets all hope that one day war will be a thing of the past.
“During the day the RAF will tweet the Morse Code signals as they happened, using their Twitter feed @RoyalAirForceUK. They will also post tweets when significant moments happened during the raid.”
I hope that tweeting in Morse code the code word for a successful breach of the Mohne doesn’t go against RAF/ Government rules!
Robert Morgan, pilot of the Belle, referred to a “backup” crew who would have been used, had the Belle crew not reached 25. So I assume this other crew were near to, or on, the magic 25.
It is indeed. As the Dambusters arrived home on 17th May, a few hours later, Memphis Belle was leaving for her last mission to Lorient. (Although some records say she flew another mission on 19th)
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