Dambuster's Memorial Park (Steenbergen)

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The park is named after (The Dambusters) 617 Squadron Royal Air Force Comanding Officer of the Squadron was Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson VC, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, RAF
12 August 1918 – 19 September 1944.
Wing Commander Gibson has his final resting place together with Squadron Leader Jim Warwick DFC in the local RC Church yard after being killed on the 19 September 1944 7 months before the end of WWII. The people of Steenbergen named the park after the Royal Air Force's Dambusters Squadron in their Honour and that their CO in buried in their municipality.
Wing Commander Gibson was famouse for being the Commanding Officer of 617 Squadron Royal Air Force's that carried out Operation Chastise the official name for attacks on German dams on 16–17 May 1943 using a specially developed "bouncing bomb.
The Squadron took the name The Dambusters.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._617_Squadron_RAF