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2013 saw the 70th anniversary of the founding
of 617 Squadron and the Dams Raid, along with a number of events to
commemorate it. The 617 Squadron Association along with the RAF
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster arranged a flypast of
Derwent reservoir in Derbyshire, one of the UK
reservoirs used by the Dambusters for training in the run up to the
raid. This is provisionally scheduled for Thursday 16 May, the
anniversary of the raid itself.
The BBMF’s Lancaster, PA474, has already been given a new nose art
and identity to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of 617
Squadron. It is now to be called DV385, Thumper Mark III, to match
the identity of one of the Lancasters posted to the squadron in
November 1943, to replace those lost on both the Dams Raid and the
disastrous September attack on the Dortmund Ems Canal |