All members of the RAF Memorial Flight Official Club are automatically entered into our monthly prize ballots to win some special prizes. These were the ballot prizes for the months of January to March 2023 and the lucky Club members who won them.
Header image: A previous winner of the BBMF Experience Day prize, Neil Ashworth, and his guests chat with Spitfire pilot, Sqn Ldr Mark ‘Disco’ Discombe, after he had landed from a sortie in Spitfire IIa P7350. (All photos: Clive Rowley)
The RAF Memorial Flight Official Club's ballot prize for March is a fantastic, ‘money cannot buy it’, chance of a lifetime for Club members to win an Experience Day with the BBMF at RAF Coningsby.
Header image: A scene from the new film ‘Attack on Sorpe Dam’, with George “Johnny” Johnson, the Lancaster bomb aimer and the film narrator. (Publicity stills courtesy of Piotr Forkasiewicz)
A new film by producers Andrew Panton and Piotr Forkasiewicz is set to premiered in May to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the famous ‘Dams Raid’. ‘Attack on Sorpe Dam’ is narrated by George “Johnny” Johnson who, as a young 21-year-old Lancaster bomb aimer, was part of a 617 Squadron ‘Dambusters’ crew which attacked the dam on the night of 16-17th May 1943. Johnny provides a first-hand account of his story, from joining 617 Squadron for a top secret, special operation that has the potential to shorten the war in Europe, the dangerous low flying training and events leading up to the operation, the attack on the Sorpe dam and the devastating aftermath of the Dambuster’s operation.
