Dambusters: All the men who took part

A daring World War II night time raid on three dams in the early hours of 17 May 1943 immortalised the RAF's 617 Squadron as the "Dambusters". This is the the first time that photographs of all the men who took part in the mission have been published. BBC News has been working with family members and historians to gather the images since the 70th anniversary earlier this year.

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133 CREW MEMBERS AJ-G crew members Guy Gibson, Pilot, Commanding Officer



Torger Taerum, Navigator



John Pulford, Flight Engineer



Frederick Spafford, Bomb Aimer



Robert Hutchinson, Wireless Operator



George Deering, Front Gunner



Richard Trevor-Roper, Rear Gunner

AJ-M crew members John Hopgood, Pilot



Ken Earnshaw, Navigator



John Fraser, Bomb Aimer



Charles Brennan, Flight Engineer



John Minchin, Wireless Operator



George Gregory, Front Gunner



Anthony Burcher, Rear Gunner

AJ-P crew members Harold Martin, Pilot



Jack Leggo, Navigator



Robert Hay, Bomb Aimer



Ivan Whittaker, Flight Engineer



Leonard Chambers, Wireless Operator



Bertie Towner Foxlee, Front Gunner



Thomas Simpson, Rear Gunner

AJ-A crew members Henry Young, Pilot



Charles Roberts, Navigator



Vincent MacCausland, Bomb Aimer



David Horsfall, Flight Engineer



Lawrence Nichols, Wireless Operator



Gordon Yeo, Front Gunner



Wilfred Ibbotson, Rear Gunner

AJ-J crew members David Maltby, Pilot



Vivian Nicholson, Navigator



John Fort, Bomb Aimer



William Hatton, Flight Engineer



Antony Stone, Wireless Operator



Victor Hill, Front Gunner



Harold Simmonds, Rear Gunner

AJ-L crew members David Shannon, Pilot



Robert Henderson, Flight Engineer



Daniel Walker, Navigator



Brian Goodale, Wireless Operator



Leonard Sumpter, Bomb Aimer



Brian Jagger, Front Gunner



Jack Buckley, Rear Gunner

AJ-Z crew members Henry Maudslay, Pilot



John Marriott, Flight Engineer



Robert Urquhart, Navigator



Alden Cottam, Wireless Operator



Michael Fuller, Bomb Aimer



William Tytherleigh, Front Gunner



Norman Burrows, Rear Gunner

AJ-B crew members William Astell, Pilot



John Kinnear, Flight Engineer



Floyd Wile, Navigator



Abram Garshowitz, Wireless Operator



Donald Hopkinson, Bomb Aimer



Francis Garbas, Front Gunner



Richard Bolitho, Rear Gunner

AJ-N crew members Leslie Knight, Pilot



Raymond Grayston, Flight Engineer



Harold Hobday, Navigator



Robert Kellow, Wireless Operator



Edward Johnson, Bomb Aimer



Frederick Sutherland, Front Gunner



Harry O'Brien, Rear Gunner

AJ-E crew members Robert Barlow, Pilot



Samuel Whillis, Flight Engineer



Phillip Burgess, Navigator



Charles Williams, Wireless Operator



Alan Gillespie, Bomb Aimer



Harvey Glinz, Front Gunner



Jack Liddell, Rear Gunner

AJ-W crew members John Munro, Pilot



Frank Appleby, Flight Engineer



Grant Rumbles, Navigator



Percy Pigeon, Wireless Operator



James Clay, Bomb Aimer



William Howarth, Front Gunner



Harvey Weeks, Rear Gunner

AJ-K crew members Vernon Byers, Pilot



Alistair Taylor, Flight Engineer



James Warner, Navigator



John Wilkinson, Wireless Operator



Arthur Whittaker, Bomb Aimer



Charles Jarvie, Front Gunner



James McDowell, Rear Gunner

AJ-H crew members Geoffrey Rice, Pilot



Edward Smith, Flight Engineer



Richard MacFarlane, Navigator



Chester Gowrie, Wireless Operator



John Thrasher, Bomb Aimer



Thomas Maynard, Front Gunner



Stephen Burns, Rear Gunner

AJ-T crew members Joseph McCarthy, Pilot



William Radcliffe, Flight Engineer



Donald MacLean, Navigator



Leonard Eaton, Wireless Operator



George Johnson, Bomb Aimer



Ronald Batson, Front Gunner



David Rodger, Rear Gunner

AJ-C crew members Warner Ottley, Pilot



Ronald Marsden, Flight Engineer



Jack Barrett, Navigator



Jack Guterman, Wireless Operator



Thomas Johnston, Bomb Aimer



Harry Strange, Front Gunner



Fred Tees, Rear Gunner

AJ-S crew members Lewis Burpee, Pilot



Guy Pegler, Flight Engineer



Thomas Jaye, Navigator



Leonard Weller, Wireless Operator



James Arthur, Bomb Aimer



William Long, Front Gunner



Joseph Brady, Rear Gunner

AJ-F crew members Kenneth Brown, Pilot



Harry Feneron, Flight Engineer



Dudley Heal, Navigator



Harry Hewstone, Wireless Operator



Stefan Oancia, Bomb Aimer



Daniel Allatson, Front Gunner



Grant MacDonald, Rear Gunner

AJ-O crew members William Townsend, Pilot



Dennis Powell, Flight Engineer



Cecil Howard, Navigator



George Chalmers, Wireless Operator



Charles Franklin, Bomb Aimer



Douglas Webb, Front Gunner



Raymond Wilkinson, Rear Gunner

AJ-Y crew members Cyril Anderson, Pilot



Robert Paterson, Flight Engineer



John Nugent, Navigator



William Bickle, Wireless Operator



John Green, Bomb Aimer



Eric Ewan, Front Gunner



Arthur Buck, Rear Gunner

Lancaster bomber crews on the dams raid consisted of seven members: pilot, flight engineer, bomb aimer, rear gunner, front gunner, navigator and the wireless operator. Each of the Dambusters aircraft had its own call sign starting AJ. Guy Gibson's plane, for example, was "AJ-G for George". When a plane was shot down, or crashed, it was usually fatal for all the crew and so on the image above you will see those killed mostly appear in groups of seven.

Three of the 133 are still alive today: George Johnson, Les Munro and Frederick Sutherland.

Picture credits: Charles Foster, Imperial War Museum, Bomber Command Museum of Canada, Australian War Memorial, Valerie Ashton, Norma Bagshaw, Dorothy Bill, Grace Blackburn, Bolitho family, Bonhams, Lewis Burpee, Jean Feneron, Peter Fort, Garbett/Goulding collection, Simon Goodale, Bill Gracie, Irene Hopkins, Hopkinson family, Dominic Howard, Howarth family, Peter Humphries, Ibbotson family, Jarvie family, Jaye family, Liddell family, Maltby family, Les Munro, Nichols family, Nicholson family, Roberts family, RAF Halton apprentices archive, Taylor family, Tytherleigh family, Alan Wells, Wilkinson family, Williams family, Yeo family, Young family, Yahya El-Droubie, Warner family, Weller family, Gary Whitaker.

Production: Greig Watson, Dominic Bailey, Bella Hurrell, Christine Jeavans, Steven Connor, Ransome Mpini, Helene Sears