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 ...

London — The last surviving crew member of a British Royal Air Force squadron that targeted Nazi Germany's industrial heartland in World War II has died aged 101, media said Thursday. George "Johnny" ...

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 ...

Sir Barnes Wallis was a genius engineer who designed a very special bomb during World War II. The idea was that it would bounce across water and destroy German dams along the Ruhr Valley, causing ...

Metal silhouettes of the 53 airmen killed in the Dambusters raid have been erected to mark the 80th anniversary of the famous World War Two mission. Made from recycled traffic signs, the Men of the ...

Seventy years ago an RAF bomber raid destroyed important German dams. At the time many argued it was only a propaganda victory. It was much more than that, writes historian Dan Snow. At 9.28pm on 16 ...

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 ...

So what could Dan Snow’s new three-part series (Channel 5) bring to the party? Well, not much that hasn’t been covered elsewhere, though he did track down a 1/50th scale model of a German dam that had ...

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