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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 8:49 pm 
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Hi to all our fans and supporters. Greg Morrison, Ben Schwartz and all our Lanc restoration crew have done wonderful reconstruction magic and have installed and got OPERATING a 100% replica UPKEEP Dambuster mine (bomb) installed in our Lancaster. This is Nanton's Bomber Command Museum tribute to RAF 617 Squadron and the 75th anniversary this year to the most daring bomber raid of all of WW2. Have a look at the video of our first actual spin up of the Dambuster bomb last night! Watch as the bomb mechanism - belt drive for the white MARKER on the belt, showing the rpm build up as they get the bomb up to speed. Way to go Lanc Team!!
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Link to a video on facebook...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4214631 ... 708192807/

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 10:10 pm 
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Kudos to the Nanton gang for this outstanding accomplishment!

However...

To rate 19 Lancasters attacking in the dark of night as the most-daring raid of 1943 is just a tad Anglo-centric.

Top honor for "most-daring" goes to OPERATION TIDALWAVE.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 6:44 am 
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Looks fantastic. thanks for the link.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:55 am 
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Very cool!


( daring operations of WWII? the Japanese Operation Z (1941) was pretty daring ( although the target defenses were asleep ) It's was a gutsy move to attack the sleeping giant.

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Operation Jericho is another good one..
Buut for me most hair raising Lanc raid is this..
http://ww2today.com/17th-april-1942-low ... n-augsberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augsburg_raid

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I don't know if it was the most daring raid, but it would be a contender for most ingenious, most dramatic, most propagandized, and most costly (in terms of British R&D and innocent/POW lives lost in the raid) relative to its modest impact on the German war effort.

The bomb looks good on the plane though!

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Anyone remember the episode of Ice Pilots NWT where the crew rigged up a copy of the Dambusters bombing apparatus underneath one of Buffalo's DC-4s, and then Arnie Schrader (sp?) successfully bombed a makeshift dam with it? Pretty cool stuff.

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That was a good.... :lol:

I miss that show...

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