Last Of The Dambusters Dies

[choux]

Sq Ldr George "Johnny" Johnson, aged 101, dies peacefully in his sleep. R.I.P.

Story broke this morning on BBC Breakfast and they put out a lovely tribute to him on the lunch time news.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-63899393

[naomi24]

Ahhh. Heroes all. May he rest in peace.

[ToraToraTora]

Wow, now that's a proper hero, amazing to think any of them where still alive up to now. RIP and thanks.

[choux]

His obituary:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40497471

[anneasquith]

I saw this yesterday choux, I hope sqad sees this post ( if he doesn’t already know ).

[douglas9401]

Remarkable people, all of them.

[choux]

So did I, anne, surprised no thread had been posted tbh.

[Canary42]

I read the book when I was a youngster - it amazed me the bravery of these men flying through flak determined to hit the target.

They were real heroes.

We owe them enormous gratitude for our freedoms today.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.”

[Bazile]

//We owe them enormous gratitude for our freedoms today.//

Hear , Hear

Rest in peace , sir

[fitdarren]

I doubt we'll ever see their like again. RIP dear man.

[Sqad]

True heroes, all of them.
Spent a wonderful weekend at the Petwood Hotel, Woodhall Spa, soaking up the atmosphere of that famous squadron.

[Redhelen72]

I saw this - how terribly sad but what an amazing life.

[maggiebee]

Brave men one and all. Rest in Peace Sir, you deserve it.

[Peter Pedant]

got a DFM ( medal) lower than a cross
and then latterly MBE

saw a Burma Vet with a military MBE - and I said - "god you have to kill a helluva lot of them to get one of those"
and the gnarled old vet said: yes you do

[Khandro]

One of my father's best friends, Jimmy Price, whom I knew very well was one of them. Dad was in the RAF but not one of that gang.
Jimmy, the story went, spent the day of his 21st birthday bombing the Eder Dam.

[Lie-in King]

A genuine hero. RIP Sq Ldr Johnson.

[lady-janine]

R.I.P. A true hero.

[lady-janine]

I once had the honour of working with a man who had been in the RAF and had been a DFC. Another hero and such a modest man I only found out he had been awarded it by accident.

[jourdain2]

I'm saddened. Somehow I don't see today's late-teenage boys doing the same. A different breed. I'm glad he had a peaceful death. R.I.P..

[Khandro]

Most of those pilots it seems, were superstitious & carried with then a strange array of good luck objects & paraphernalia. Jimmy, whom I mention above, flew with a pair of his girlfriend's (later to be his wife) nickers round his neck as a sort of cravat !

Well, it seemed to have worked & he survived the war.

[Atheist]

Jourdain; 17:03
"Somehow I don't see today's late-teenage boys doing the same."

Teenage boys then were much like teenage boys now. When necessary, when there's a cause they can attach themselves to, they stand up and fight.