LONDON (AP) — George “Johnny” Johnson, the last known survivor of Britain’s daring World War II “Dambusters” bombing raid on German infrastructure, has died. He was 101. Britain’s national news agency ...

A veteran firefighter has used his talent as a writer to release a children’s adventure book, based in Woodhall Spa, to raise ...

A deteriorating pier significant to the Dambusters raid during the Second World War has received a £10 million lifeline from the National Lottery. Birnbeck Pier will be “brought back from the brink of ...

Seventy years ago, a daring World War II raid immortalised the RAF's 617 Squadron as the "Dambusters". Using a specially developed bouncing bomb, the squadron managed to breach two dams in Germany.

On the night of May 16, 1943, 19 Avro Lancaster bombers of the Royal Air Force’s No. 617 Squadron executed one of the most daring air operations of World War II. Flying at treetop level to escape ...

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At 9.28pm on 16 May 1943, the first of 19 Brtitish Lancaster bombers took off from Royal Air Force Scampton in Lincolnshire, headed for the industrial heartland of Nazi Germany. Nine hours later, the ...

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