Tag: RAF Bomber Command

End of Era as Last Surviving Member of RAF’s Dambusters Squadron Dies Aged 101

The last surviving member of the RAF’s Dambusters squadron, which used special “bouncing bombs” against German dams in a series of daring raids during the Second World War, has died at the age of 101. George “Johnny” Johnson, who was 101, was the last member of 617 squadron, whose 1943 raid became part of British…


Film Review: ‘Lancaster’: British Dam-Busting Bomber of World War II

PG | 1h 50min | Documentary | Oct. 14, 2022 The World War II-era British Lancaster bomber was just as iconic as the American B-17 “Flying Fortress” (immortalized in film and news reels by “The Memphis Belle”), but it holds a more complicated place in British popular history. The plane itself and the men who…