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Tag: Royal Air Force

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17th May 1943: Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron carries out the ‘Dambusters’ raids

17th May 2019
Tagged as: Aircraft, Barnes Wallis, Bomb, Bouncing Bomb, Britain, Germany, Guy Gibson, Royal Air Force, Ruhr Valley, Second World War

Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron attacked German dams in Operation Chastise, otherwise known as the Dambuster Raids.

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26th May 1940: Start of the Dunkirk evacuation

26th May 2018
Tagged as: Army, Britain, Churchill, Evacuation, France, Germany, Navy, Nazi, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Second World War

Operation Dynamo, better known as the evacuation of Dunkirk, began.

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