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Radio Lincolnshire,05 May 2025,9 mins

The day Guy Gibson came to breakfast

Secret Lincolnshire

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A Lincolnshire woman has been recounting the time Dambusters leader Guy Gibson joined her family for breakfast. Kit Lawie was 14 when her father encountered three airmen on an exercise in avoiding capture and took them back to the family farm at East Keal. Among them was Sqn Ldr Gibson, who several months later would become famous for leading the Dams raid.

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