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Andy
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| Lewis wrote: | aye i seen them go over dewent before
very close to me is dewent dams and howden dam
they have a sort of small museum inside of the dams about the dambusters |
aye lewis been in that museum, they have a mock up of the bouncing bomb, an good day out that is.
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Here's a very good history on the whole operation, but I can see no mention of Fillingham Lake - http://www.war-experience.org/his...yaspects/damsraid0543/default.asp
The Building Research Station at Garston, where the model was built is apparently near Watford.
Was Fillingham Lake used for the making of the movie?
And again from Wikipedia.
| Quote: | | During the Second World War it was involved in the confidential research and development of the bouncing bomb for use against the Möhne Dam in the famous Dambusters Raid of 1943 [5] (The small scale model of the dam used for testing can still be found at the Centre in Garston, Watford, today). |
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Naa, defo when he was designing it! I'd bet me life on it!
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... I bet the families of the German civilians that died 'cause of that catastrophe are not too happy about the anniversary. 
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| toxx wrote: | | ... I bet the families of the German civilians that died 'cause of that catastrophe are not too happy about the anniversary. |
There are no real winners in war.
All we can really hope is that all sides learn from it and don't make the same mistakes again..............................
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... right you are there, mate. Kind greetz from the other side of the globe! 
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Well I was at Woodhall Spa show today, and the Lancaster, Hurricane and Spitfire did a bit of a display
Got some good pics and a video!!
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| i had a phone call from grandad just before heartbeat, saying that he got to go in the lancaster which is owned by the guys who live on a farm, and taxi it up and down, but it cant fly. he said they all got to go in all the different possitions, taxi up and down in it, have lunch in the naffi, have a ride on the recovery truck, go in the museum. sounded right good fun. |
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Ahh at East Kirkby!
Been there, done that 
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I said to mother, I dunno why but whenever I hear a Lancaster flying over I always feel rate queer! She were like "You're maybe re-incarnated (or whatever it is) from the last war!"
I were like "O aye"
Anyways, it were hard trying to photograph it, but I'm quite pleased with some of these!!
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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Nice pictures.
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I love watching the Warbirds fly, last fall in Columbus Ohio, about three hours drive from here, there was a gathering of over 150 P51 Mustangs, I can not describe the sound of so many Merlins in operation at the same time.
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