C-GVRA (ED932) - AVRO Lancaster Mk. X - Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
"Dambusters"
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
manufactured in 1945 by Victory Aircraft in Malton, Ontario
For the summer 2018 C-GVRA received the colours and markings of ED932, a Lancaster of RAF No.617 Sqn on the 1943 Dambusters raid against the Moehne- and Edersee-dams in Germany.
Operation Chastise was an attack on German dams carried out on 16–17 May 1943 by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, later called the Dambusters, using a purpose-built "bouncing bomb" The Möhne and Edersee Dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley and of villages in the Eder valley; the Sorpe Dam sustained only minor damage. Two hydroelectric power stations were destroyed and several more damaged. Factories and mines were also damaged and destroyed. An estimated 1,600 civilians, about 600 Germans and 1,000 mainly Soviet forced-labourers died.
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