 The bombs were dropped from specially-adapted Lancasters |
The 60th anniversary of the Dambusters raids is to be marked at the Surrey museum where Barnes Wallis and his team worked on the bouncing bombs. A key member of the group, now in his 80s, will be at Brooklands Museum for the opening of the exhibition next month.
The anniversary celebrations will also feature a flypast by a Lancaster bomber - the type of plane which dropped the bombs.
The daring World War II raid was immortalised in a book by Paul Brickhill and a legendary war film starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd.
Norman Boorer, 87, who worked at Brooklands for many years, will be at the opening of the special exhibition there on 17 May.
The bombs were carried by the RAF's 617 Squadron flying specially-adapted Lancasters, and were used to destroy the Mohne and Eder dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr Valley.
Gemma Lane, events manager at the museum in Weybridge, said: "There has been tremendous interest in the 17 May event and we are expecting several thousand people to attend."
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