The button that bust the dam

The button from the Lancaster bomber of 617 Squadron that released the ‘bouncing bomb’ which destroyed the Möhne Dam has sold after being offered at auction for the first time.

The May 17, 1943, raid was immortalised in the 1955 film The Dambusters and items linked to the op…

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