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PATHWAY TO THE RUHR
With silver moonlight glinting on the wave tops below, Guy Gibson leads the first wave of Lancaster's low across the North Sea to avoid enemy detection, on the night of 16/17 May 1943. In formation with 'Mick' Martin on his port side and 'Hoppy' Hopgood to starboard, Gibson heads towards the Dutch Coast and the Ruhr valley beyond - their mission, the destruction of the Mőhne and Eder Dams.
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BADERS BUS COMPANY - THE GICLEE STUDIO PROOF
Spitfires of the Tangmere Wing fly a southerly course towards the Pas de Calais and a doubtless engagement with Adolf Galland's 'Abbeville Boys'. The glorious colours of sunrise glint on the sleek fighters as they streak out over the early
morning cumulus clouds.
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FLYING TIGERS - THE STUFF OF LEGEND
P-40's of the AVG Flying Tigers 3rd Pursuit Squadron - Hell's Angels - deliver a deadly strafing attack on a Japanese forward air-base in China, summer 1942. With their Allison engines screaming at full throttle, AVG Aces Tommy Haywood and Robert Smith, lead the charge as the Hell's Angels leave a trail of havoc and destruction behind them.
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TO HELL AND BACK - Operation Tidal Wave
Flying at low-level over the Astra Romana oil refinery,Lt James Merrick of the 98th Bomb Group powers his B-24 'Lil De-icer' through the pall of burning debris as time-delayed bombs, dropped in error by a previous
Group, explode beneath them. With any hope of surprise now lost, and taking heavy losses in the process, the crews of the 98th bravely hold their bombers on course.
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ON COURSE FOR THE MÖHNE DAM
Guy Gibson leads the first wave of 617 Squadron's Lancaster bombers towards the German border and on to the Mőhne dam. After crossing the coast a fraction off course, Gibson adjusts his compass heading slightly and, as the unmistakable thunder of 12 cylinder Merlin engines at full throttle shatters the night, follows the course of a large canal where the owner of an ancient windmill, hearing the noise, hurries outside to witness the event.
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AMERICAN CLIPPER FLYING CLOUD - THE GICLÉE STUDIO PROOF
For two glorious decades in the mid-nineteenth century, the world's great sea trading routes were dominated by the magnificent 'Yankee Clippers'.
And none were finer or more famous than the American clipper Flying Cloud, legendary for her world beating speed records, some of which stood for 100 years, and for having a female Navigator - unheard of in 1854!
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THE DAMBUSTERS - LAST MOMENTS OF THE MÖHNE DAM
Guy Gibson and Mick Martin draw the enemy's fire as 'Dinghy' Young clears the dam's parapet seconds after releasing his bomb. A few moments later Young's bomb will successfully detonate against the dam leaving it mortally wounded allowing David Maltby in AJ-J to finish the task. With the Mohne Dam breached Gibson, with the remaining crews, will turn south to repeat the operation at the Eder Dam.
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THE BREACH - THE DAMBUSTERS 70th ANNIVERSARY PORTFOLIO
The Mohne Dam: 17 May 1943, 00.49 hrs -
Guy Gibson engages enemy flak positions whilst Lancaster AJ-J, with pilot David Maltby at the controls, banks steeply away after delivering the coup-de-grace. A huge explosion and towering pillar of water marks the breach where a vast torrent begins to flood the valley below.
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