"Glorious return: Back where it all began, a lone Lancaster marks 70 years since the audacious Dambusters raid"

From The Daily Mail:

• The Möhne Dam in the Ruhr valley was blown up again by brave airmen yesterday
• RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and 617 Squadron dropped bouncing bombs over the reservoir
• The mission was one of many events to mark anniversary of the daring Dams Raid of May 16-17 1943

Their audacity and skill have become the stuff of legend. Unlike on the previous mission when nearly half the crews never made it back, the entire crew made it back to their English airbase as they caught the modern day Luftwaffe totally unprepared.

Yesterday, on the 70th anniversary of the most famous raid in RAF history, the Dambusters of 617 Squadron were honoured with the simplest but most poignant tribute: a lone Lancaster bomber dropping bouncing bombs on the Möhne reservoir before taking a bow over the very spot where it all began.

Thousands of stunned Germans, most of whom had gone to work as usual in the morning, gathered in refugee shelters lower down the flooded Ruhr valley after watching in mounting horror as Britain's last Lancaster, from the RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, made three runs over the dam before releasing its deadly cargo.

The Japanese government has hastily withdrawn permission for a memorial flypast over Hiroshima which had been planned by the USAAF for this August.