of the Frontier Light Horse
an Upkeep bomb arrives on the threshold to be loaded onto the special cradle beneath a Lancaster of 617 Dambusters Squadron on the eve of their perilous journey to the Ruhr Valley on the night of 16th May 1943 when the Möhne and Eder dams were breached under the codename Operation Chastise
the German being killed in a mid air collision with an RAF Airspeed Oxford just three days later during another intruder operation over the midlands
saving many thousands of civilians from certain death by starvation and malnutrition
Colonel on the Staff - Principal Royal Engineer
Lucky 13 by David Pentland. (P) PER214 of the Frontier Light HorseDP0165P. Lucky 13 by David Pentland. St Nazaire, France, 3rd January 1943. The Fw190A4 of Georg Peter Schorsch Eder, 7 JG2, streaks past Meat Hound, a B17F of th 423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group en route to attack the U boat pens at St Nazaire. Along with his Gruppenkommandeur Egon Mayer, it was Eder who pioneered the head on pass tactic against the Flying Fortresses. On this day he to achieve his thirteenth victory, and second B17. By the end of