Australias Dambusters - Colin Burgess

Colin Burgess

Category: History

Narrator: Steve Shanahan

Tags: History, Military

Australias Dambusters Flying into Hell with 617 Squadron By: Colin Burgess Narrated by: Steve Shanahan Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 06-07-2021 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia A truly comprehensive account of 617 Squadron, RAF, who carried out one of the most dangerous and audacious aerial bombing raids of World War II., It was the evening of 16 May 1943. Nineteen modified Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron RAF, under the command of youthful Wing Commander Guy Gibson, roared into the night sky from their Lincolnshire base. They were on a top-secret Bomber Command mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, now regarded as one of the most dangerous and audacious bombing raids of World War II - an attack on the formidable, well-defended dams of Germanys Ruhr Valley. Slung beneath the belly of each aircraft was one of the wars greatest secrets - a bouncing bomb., Against the odds, and flying straight and level into the teeth of terrifying