Tributes are being paid to the last surviving member of the RAF's famous war-time 'Dambusters' air raid after his death at the age of 101.
George Leonard 'Johnny' Johnson was the last surviving original member of RAF 617 Squadron’s famous mission of 1943. It was announced today that he died peacefully at his care home in Westbury on Trym, Bristol, on Wednesday night, surrounded by his family.
Mr Johnson - who was made an MBE in 2017 after a long-running campaign - was a bomb aimer during Operation Chastise, which was tasked with attacking key German water dams in the country's industrial heartlands during the Second World War. Around a third of the RAF Bomber Command crew did not survive the raid.
