youtube/watch?v=viQAkquQ-Dc&feature=youtu.be More than 70 years after its creation, the RAF’s 617 Squadron, known as ‘The Dambusters’, has completed its last operational mission as a Tornado squadron with a flight in the skies over Afghanistan. This last flight was a mission in support of coalition troops that involved providing protection and relaying information from above directly to commanders on the ground; a task that has now been handed over to No 2 (Army Co-operation) Squadron from RAF Marham. 617 Squadron is due to disband on 1 April, but will reform as the RAF’s first Lightning II squadron in 2018.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:48:38 +0000
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