chastise
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Operation Chastise, as the mission was officially named, is perhaps the best-known Bomber Command operation, with the crews' bravery immortalised in the 1955 film The Dam Busters.
From BBC • May 16, 2023
Mr. Johnson served with the RAF’s celebrated 617 Squadron and was a sergeant at the time of the “Dambuster” raid — Operation Chastise — which began before dawn on May 17, 1943.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2022
Braving antiaircraft fire, the squadron, based at Scampton, north of London, breached Germany’s Eder and Mōhne dams and damaged the Sorpe Dam in what was formally known as Operation Chastise.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2022
Johnson was a 21-year-old bomb aimer on the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, by the Royal Air Force’s famed 617 Squadron.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2022
Chastise your son while there is still hope, And set not your heart on his destruction.
From The Makers and Teachers of Judaism by Kent, Charles Foster
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