Dambuster Guy Gibson VC DSO DFC
Posted on Wednesday 16th May 2012Extracted from Dambuster - The Life of Guy Gibson VC DSO* DFC* and reproduced by permission of Pen and Sword Books Ltd.












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Dambuster
(Paperback - 196 pages)
ISBN: 9781844156054
by Susan Ottaway
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Few men have a better claim to be called a legend in his own lifetime than Guy Gibson. Leader of the famous Dambuster Raid of May, 1943 which became part of the popular folklore of the Second World War after the film in which Richard Todd took the part of the hero, he himself was tragically in an air crash in 1944.
Born in India in 1918 and brought up in England, Guy Gibson joined the RAF in November, 1936. Thereafter his career can be seen…
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