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Dambusters 80th Anniversary Tour
The Dambusters Raid of May 1943 was one of the most iconic air operations of the Second World War. We honour the sacrifice of Guy Gibson VC and his crews who flew in the mission, on the 80th Anniversary of Operation Chastise.
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- 6 nights hotel with continental breakfast
- Specialist Battlefield Guide
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Make your own way to our hotel in the Sheffield area, where you will be staying for the night.
We head to Derwent Dam in the Peak District, where the Dambusters operated training flights because of its resemblance to the German dams, before travelling to Lincoln to visit the International Bomber Command Memorial overlooking the city. We continue to our hotel in the Cambridge area.
Includes Breakfast
Key Visits
Today, we visit the RAF Museum in Hendon to see an original Lancaster Bomber, before viewing the area at Reculver in Kent where bouncing bomb testing took place. From here, we travel to France and continue to Antwerp for an overnight stay.
Includes Breakfast
Key Visits
Today, we see the grave of Dambusters’ leader Guy Gibson VC, killed in a crash in a Mosquito in 1944, and more Dambusters’ graves at Bergen op Zoom, before continuing to our hotel in the Dortmund/Wuppertal area of Germany for two nights. As today is the 80th Anniversary of the Raid, after dinner this evening we visit the Möhne Dam at the time the attack took place in 1943, returning to our hotel late this evening.
Includes Breakfast
Key Visits
Today, on 17th May – the continuation of the 80th Anniversary – we return to the Dams attacked in the raid, also seeing the small museum at the Eder Dam.
Includes Breakfast
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We travel across Germany and visit the graves of Dambuster crews in Rheinberg War Cemetery and Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, before having an overnight stay in the Arnhem area.
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Return home.
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Accommodation
You will stay for one night at the four-star Hotel Mercure Sheffield Kenwood Hall & Spa in Sheffield, Yorkshire. You will then stay for one night at the four-star Cambridge Belfry Hotel & Spa in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire.
