An application to remove the grave of the Dambusters’ dog at RAF Scampton has been submitted to the local council.
The 617 Squadron, based at the RAF site in Lincolnshire, undertook a low-level night attack on German dams in 1943 and was one of the most famous raids in the history of the force.
Wing Commander Guy Gibson used his dog’s name, which is a racial slur, as a code word to say the dam had been breached – with the Labrador retriever dying the same night of the raid.
