Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson, VC, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar (12 August 1918 – 19 September 1944) was a distinguished bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force...
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retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron. Gibson owned the dog when he was previously...
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118) De Heen (440) t'Haantje Steenbergen received city rights in 1272. Guy Gibson, Wing Commander and the first CO of the RAF's 617 Squadron which he led...
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Dam Busters (1951) by Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead (1946) by Guy Gibson, the film depicts the true story of Operation Chastise when in 1943 the...
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roles include Jonathan Cooper in Stage Fright (1950), Wing Commander Guy Gibson in The Dam Busters (1955), Sir Walter Raleigh in The Virgin Queen (1955)...
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to Gibson's own background. In 1983, he returned to daytime television, playing "Tom 'Hawk' Haney" on One Life to Live and appeared on The Fall Guy. Gibson's...
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Guy Gibson Campbell (August 6, 1890 – December 2, 1957) was an American medical doctor. He served as a medical officer on a US Army transport during the...
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RAF Scampton (section Guy Gibson)
when six Hampdens of No. 83 Squadron, led by (the then) Flying Officer Guy Gibson and three No. 49 Squadron Hampdens, one piloted by Flying Officer Roderick...
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Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson AO (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his action hero roles, particularly his breakout...
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Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7509-4758-9. Gibson, Guy. Enemy Coast Ahead. London: Pan Books, 1955. Gibson's own account. OCLC 2947593 Hastings, Max. Operation...
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617 Squadron, Wing Commander Guy Gibson, was awarded the Victoria Cross for his part in the raid. After the raid, Gibson was withdrawn from flying (due...
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1899 which was extensively renovated in 1932. On September 11, 1918, Guy Gibson, leader of Operation Chastise, the famous "Dambusters Raid" of 1943, was...
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Look up Guy or guy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. . Guy (/ɡaɪ/ ghy, French: [ɡi]) is a masculine given name derived from an abbreviated version of...
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Commander Guy Gibson VC, DSO, DFC. It covers his time in RAF Bomber Command from the very earliest days of war in 1939 through to 1943. Gibson wrote the...
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RAF Wellingore (section Guy Gibson)
Wellingore on his final flight, in which he was killed. In November 1940, Guy Gibson, who later led Operation Chastise (better known as the Dambusters Raid)...
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Charlie Chauhan, television actress Rubina Dilaik, television actress Guy Gibson, WWII RAF aviator, VC Horatio Boileau Goad, British policeman and former...
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expected. The Institute has a plaque to Guy Gibson VC, leader of the Dambuster Raid, on the wall facing the harbour. Gibson was born in India, but saw Porthleven...
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Hutton Gibson, father of actor Mel Gibson. Guy performed on every Seekers album apart from 1980 A Little Bit of Country, as he had left in 1978 (Guy returned...
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including Big Nine with Athol Guy and Ford Superquiz with Bert Newton. In 1986, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Gibson had recently won $100,000 and...
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Gordon Gibson (disambiguation), multiple people Graeme Gibson (1934–2019), Canadian novelist Greg Gibson (disambiguation), multiple people Guy Gibson (1918–1944)...
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US Representative from Pennsylvania Sir Guy Campbell, 5th Baronet (1910–1993), British colonel Guy Gibson Campbell (1890–1957), American medical doctor...
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Glamorganshire Golf Club (section Guy Gibson VC)
his brother's house. The following year Gibson and Eve were married at All Saints Church in Penarth. Guy Gibson flew his Blenheim bomber from his airbase...
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screen to concert hall. In his 1944 appearance on Desert Island Discs, Guy Gibson, leader of the Dambusters raid, asked for it as his first choice. One...
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Squadron RAF attacked German dams in the Ruhr valley using "bouncing bombs"; Guy Gibson was awarded the Victoria Cross for this action. The war on the land did...
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that attacked the Möhne Dam. The first three aircraft to attack the dam (Guy Gibson flying in G-George, Hopgood in M-Mother and Harold Brownlow Martin in...
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pupils of the School".[citation needed] These included, among many others, Guy Gibson of 617 Squadron, who led 'The Dambusters', flying ace Douglas Bader, and...
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Associated Press, 27 July 1942 Gibson, Guy and Martin, Harold (2006). Enemy Coast Ahead – Uncensored: The Real Guy Gibson. MBI Publishing Company, p. 186...
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Cross were: Squadron Leader Ian Willoughby Bazalgette Wing Commander Guy Gibson Warrant Officer Norman Cyril Jackson Pilot Officer Andrew Mynarski Squadron...
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in a suburb of Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. He was named Guy in tribute to Guy Gibson of No. 617 Squadron RAF. His father Ian was a successful privateer...
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Gibson, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corporation and Gibson Brands Inc.) is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and professional...
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