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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Matthew Weaver

Last surviving Dambuster, ‘Johnny’ Johnson, dies aged 101

'Jonny' Johnson at his home in Devon in 2008.
Johnson was one of 133 crew members who took part in the raids. Photograph: Barry Gomer/Rex/Shutterstock

The last survivor of the Dambuster bouncing bomb raids of 1943 has died at the age of 101.

George Leonard “Johnny” Johnson was a bomb-aimer in the 617 squadron which destroyed vital dams in Germany’s industrial Ruhr valley during the second world war.

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