Bomb Away! The Third Assault by Robert Taylor. ART157 Pilot Officer Cyril Barton died

Pilot Officer Cyril Barton died of his injuries but as a result of his selfless actions

Signed by Oberleutnant Franz Woidich (deceased)

on a ground support mission

First Gibson in AJ-G attacked

This versatile all-wooden aircraft first flew on the 25th of November 1940

Bomb Away! The Third Assault by Robert Taylor. ART157 Pilot Officer Cyril Barton diedDHM6039. Bomb Away! The Third Assault by Robert Taylor. On the night of 16th 17th May 1943 nineteen specially modified Lancasters of No. 617 Squadron departed from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire on one of the most secret and daring bombing operations undertaken during World War Two. The ultra secret operation to destroy the huge hydro electric dams that powered a significant part of Germany's industrial war machine in the Ruhr valley, codenamed