In this unique footage filmed shortly before the Dambusters' Raid in May 1943, an Avro Lancaster flies low off the Kent coast, trialling a cylinder-type "Upkeep" bouncing bomb. Learn more about the incredible story behind the raid: bit.ly/2rPxxAK © IWM MTE 3437

Re-enactment of a special kind. (A bouncing bomb as used by The Dambusters. #WW2 #HISTORY)

Tonight, as we sleep soundly in our beds, we remember the bravery, determination, and sacrifice of the men of 617 Sqn who, 81 years ago tonight, undertook the daring #Dambusters mission. Many of them paid the ultimate price for the mission's success. They will not be forgotten.

Avro Lancaster

It never gets old hearing and seeing the Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane they really are the spirit of the sky’s. 🇬🇧👏🙏❤️

The greatest UK advert. . . .ever? "The Dambusters" (1989) #Dambusters #WW2 #ww2history Royal Air Force

USS North Carolina at anchor, New York, New York, United States, 19-20 Aug 1941

Beachy Head lighthouse from Lancaster bomber

Me 163 Komet flies past an American B-17 Flying Fortress

FW-190's on the flight line

A severely damaged Mosquito after its return to base.

Marder III early variant armed with the 7.62cm Pak 36(r) based built on a captured Soviet 76.2 mm M1936 (F-22) divisional gun on the move near Belgorod in the Summer of 1943

The 369th Croatian Reinforced Infantry Regiment on the Eastern front, 1942. The 100th Light Infantry Division, including the 369th Croatian Reinforced Infantry Regiment, was involved in the heavy fighting for the "Red October" factory and for Mamayev Hill during the Battle of

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Captured Messerschmitt Me 262 with a 50mm canon. An officer holds one of the 5 cm rounds fired by the aircraft.

Soldiers of the 80th Infantry Division rest and have a smoke as they stand by to move out and meet the enemy. 🚬

York’s last surviving D-Day veteran, Ken Cooke, marked the 80th anniversary of VJ Day by leading a two-minute silence and reading the Kohima Epitaph in honour of comrades who never returned. 🕯️ Now 100, Ken continues to represent his fallen brothers with pride and dignity: “For

#OTD in 1958, USS Enterprise (CV-6) made her final voyage as she moved from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the scrapper in New Jersey. FADM William Halsey led an effort to preserve the Big E as a museum but the campaign was unable to raise enough funds to save the carrier.

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