Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
Thank you for posting this Adrian. Nice to see all of the crew members together.
Regards,
Carl
This is a good piece of work by the BBC i'm carrying out Dambusters Battlefield Tours at the moment so this is very helpful !!
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
Great to see the faces of all the brave souls who flew into "folk law" on that eventful evening in may all those years ago........Jake.
I agree with all of the above, great to see the faces of these brave blokes.
Here's another Dambusters related link: After the Dams.
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
Leger Dambusters 154.jpgLeger Dambusters 155.jpg
Grave of Guy Gibson VC , DSO and Bar , DFC and Bar together with Jim Warwick DFC in Steenbergen
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
Is it known how many of the 1650 drowned people were civilians?
Apperently 749 of the 1650 were French, Belgian, Dutch and Ukrainian prisoners of war.
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