21 October
On This Day, 1939: On 21 October 1939, 46 Squadron Hurricanes intercepted Heinkel He 115 floatplanes over the North Sea in the…
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617 Squadron Launches the Dams Raid with Upkeep Mines
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On this day in 1943, 617 Squadron launched the dams raid, using Barnes Wallis’s Upkeep mine in the famous Operation Chastise attack.
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