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Saturday 18 May 2013

Dambusters 70th anniversary marked with flypast 

Hundreds of well-wishers gathered at Derwent Reservoir today to watch a flypast by a Lancaster bomber to mark the 70th anniversary of the war-time Dambuster raids. A Mark X1X spitfire flew over the historic twin towers of the 183m dam followed by the Lancaster, both from the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. It was followed by two tornado GR4s from the current 617 squadron. The dam, in the Hope Valley in Derbyshire, was used by the airmen for practice runs in the weeks leading up to the daring raids of 16-17 May 1943.

 

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