RAF’s legendary Squadron disbanded 71 years after famous raid over Germany. Will reform and get F-35s in a few years. Royal Air Force’s 617 Squadron known as the “Dambusters”, from the daring night ...

Some of the Air and Ground crew shortly after the last flight for 617 Sqn. The squadron, often referred to as Dambusters after the daring raid it flew in WW2, is being disbanded.Picture: Sgt Si ...

A parade has marked the latest disbandment of the famous Dambusters squadron. Created during the Second World War, 617 Squadron carried out the "bouncing bomb" raid to destroy dams in Nazi Germany. It ...

Plans to use the home of the legendary Dambusters squadron to house asylum seekers are 'unlawful' and should be quashed, council bosses say, amid a bitter legal battle to stop the proposal from going ...

On Tuesday, the Dambusters squadron returned home to Scotland, where friends and family stood waiting with signs and balloons for their loved ones. First created in WWII, 617 Squadron is one of the ...

The iconic Dambusters squadron is to be disbanded next year and reformed in 2016 to fly the RAF's new Lightning II fighters. Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, said that 617 ...

VETERANS are preparing to pay their respects to a Dambusters squadron legend from Southend. Bernard Mabey joined 617 Bomber Command two years after the world famous raids serving his country and his ...

The last surviving pilot of the RAF’s legendary “Dambusters” bomber squadron has died in his native New Zealand at the age of 96. “Our New Zealand Bomber Command Association Patron, and well known ...

The RAF's famous "Dambusters" squadron is to be disbanded next year and reformed in 2016 to fly the new F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighter. Created during World War II, 617 Squadron carried out ...

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Asylum seekers will be held at the historic Dambusters RAF base after the High Court quashed a local council's complaint about the Government's plans. West Lindsey District Council in Gainsborough, ...