Final Briefing by Anthony Saunders. (RMB) SHN468 Gracie was hit in action

Gracie was hit in action and forced to crash land his badly damaged aircraft

Napoleonic art print showing the British Artillery and Horse Artillery crossing the Bidassoa as the Duke of Wellington looks on during the Peninsula War

another eight-hour ordeal to attack industrial targets in the Ruhr

A gathering section of 124 Squadron Spitfires led by Peter Ayerst climbs for height above the bomber stream and a lone Mosquito

The Cock Tavern

Final Briefing by Anthony Saunders. (RMB) SHN468 Gracie was hit in actionDHM6400RMB. Final Briefing by Anthony Saunders. RAF Scampton: 16 May 1943 20. 55 hrs. Everyone at Scampton suspected that something big was about to happen. The crews of the recently formed 617 Squadron, hand picked by their CO Wing Commander Guy Gibson, had been training hard for weeks and the rumour on the grapevine suggested it might be the Tirpitz they were after. But then, late in the afternoon of 16 May 1943 came the call over the station tannoy