The last surviving Dambuster has died peacefully at his care home in Bristol. George Leonard 'Johnny' Johnson, the last surviving original member of the famous raid, died on Wednesday, December 7 at the age of 101.
George was a bomb aimer during Operation Chastise, tasked with attacking German dams during the Second World War. The raid was undertaken in 1943 by the RAF 617 Squadron - around a third of the RAF Bomber Command did not survive the raid.
After the death of his wartime colleague, Fred Sutherland, who died in January 2019, George became the last surviving member of the original flying 617 Squadron.
