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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

During World War II, British engineers developed one of the most ingenious weapons ever created - a bomb that could skip ...

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 ...

A deteriorating pier significant to the Dambusters raid during the Second World War has received a £10 million lifeline from the National Lottery. Birnbeck Pier will be "brought back from the brink of ...

Original marbles that bouncing-bomb creator Barnes Wallis used in his back garden to calculate trajectory. AUCTIONEUM LTD VIA SWNS “> The world’s most expensive marbles used to plan the Dambusters ...

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