In this painting by artist Robert Taylor, a modified RAF Lancaster bomber roars through the night sky after releasing its payload during an attack on the Möhne River Dam in Germany’s Ruhr Valley.

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After Me, The Flood

By Al Hemingway

A full moon in a cloudless sky shone over Germany’s Ruhr Valley on the night of May 16, 1943, meaning that all Royal Air Force (RAF) bombing missions over Nazi Germany had been canceled. Read more

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