617 Sqn as the decisive Barnes-Wallace bouncing bomb skips towards the dam in the moonlit background
and escaped only by sending his P47-D Thunderbolt into a gut wrenching dive
on the far West coast of Canada
Later in the day Grenfell and his men helped to drag away British guns which were in danger of being captured
Thankfully all will land safely
Polish Winged Lancers - Battle of Vienna, September 12th 1683 by Brian Palmer. PER494 617 Sqn as the decisiveDHM1695. Polish Winged Lancers Battle of Vienna, September 12th 1683 by Brian Palmer. In an attempt to expand into Europe, Ottoman Turks under the command of Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa laid siege to Vienna for two months. A coalition of Polish, German and Austrians led by John III Sobieski, the King of Poland, arrived before Vienna to raise the siege. Sobieski led a charge of 20,000 cavalry, including the fearsome Winged Hussars into the Ottoman camp