Hand-written maths lessons that Dambusters hero Barnes Wallis used to woo his teenage wife are set to fetch £2,000 at auction. The man who went on to invent the ‘bouncing bomb’ fell for Molly Bloxham, a cousin half his age, in the 1920s. But her father felt it was inappropriate for her senior suitor, who … Read more
‘Up the marbles!’: How Barnes Wallis’s daughter congratulated Dambusters inventor after bouncing bomb he dreamed up by playing with children’s toy at family home smashed the heart of Hitler’s war machine in 1943 Barnes Wallis perfected weapon’s design with marbles in back garden His daughter wrote to him three days after mission success to congratulate … Read more
A Dambusters hero’s relative has been branded a racist after her petition to restore the name of RAF legend Guy Gibson’s dog to its gravestone amassed almost 20,000 signatures. Sarah Hobday, 41, launched a campaign to return black Labrador N****r’s name to the headstone at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire amid fury over its removal on Thursday. Ms Hobday, … Read more