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Dambuster of the Day No. 66: Philip Burgess
Flg Off P S Burgess Navigator Lancaster serial number: ED927/G Call sign: AJ-E Second wave. Crashed on outward flight. Philip Sidney Burgess was born in Portsmouth in August 1922. Both his parents...
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Appeal launched for AJ-E Dambuster memorial
The crew of AJ-E. Left to right: Norman Barlow, Leslie Whillis, Philip Burgess, Charles Williams, Alan Gillespie, Harvey Glinz, Jack Liddell. Eight crews from 617 Squadron were lost on the night of...
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Dambuster of the Day No. 69: Harvey Glinz
[Pic: Peter Humphries] Flg Off H S Glinz Front gunner Lancaster serial number: ED927/G Call sign: AJ-E Second wave. Crashed on outward flight. Harvey Sterling Glinz was born in Winnipeg, the capital...
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Good news for Dambuster memorial appeal
A piece of good news to cheer us all at this festive season. This blog’s good friend Volker Schürmann has recently informed us that the appeal for funds to erect a permanent memorial at the site where...
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Dambuster Memorial unveiled as many pay tribute
Pic: Wim Govaerts Several hundred people gathered on Sunday 17 May 2015 on the edge of a small wood in Haldern, north western Germany, to pay tribute to the crew of Dams Raid Lancaster AJ-E, piloted by...
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Act of Remembrance
The Reichswald Forest War Cemetery lies in a wooded area in north west Germany, near the town of Kleve and not far from a massive road bridge across the Rhine. It is the largest Commonwealth war...
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