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#OnThisDay in 1943, 617 Squadron departed @RAFScampton on Operation Chastise - an audacious bombing raid that is still talked about to this day.

Here's your Saturday #MegaThread to explain it all πŸ‘‡

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Before we begin, Operation Chastise in numbers:

πŸ•°οΈ Departed @RAFScampton @ 21:28, 16 May 1943
⚑ Primary targets: 3 dams in the Ruhr valley
✈️ 19 Avro Lancaster bombers
πŸ‘¨ 133 airmen from πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Britain, πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Canada, πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia, πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ New Zealand, πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ United States

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The plan was to destroy three dams in the Ruhr valley.

The MΓΆhne, Eder and Sorpe dams were valuable sources of hydroelectric power in the German heartland, and it was thought that their destruction would cause significant disruption to war production.

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